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Messaging on IPFS #33

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@seidtgeist

Messaging fragmentation and messaging monopolies are bad for people. This WIRED article advocating a messaging monopoly owned by an ad-business made me mentally flip tables. The corporate centralization problem is especially pronounced in messaging. Messaging APIs shrink or disappear, eventually turning into an official GIF sharing Obj-C library that you have to use in order to not have your API keys revoked [drama added].

Related problems:

  • Identity: Peer identity versus user identity. Is this something we're aware of? E.g. I am a person with one brain (hopefully not just a computer simulation) but I have multiple ipfs peers running ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Identity is a prerequisite for chat and other social structures.
  • Pubsub: Is messaging just a version of PubSub?

Messaging properties:

  • Message history: A personal block chain of sent and received messages?
  • Direct messaging: Sending messages between two users
  • Group messaging: Sending messages among multiple users, topics, channels
  • Presence: Peer's online status, typing indicators
  • Delivery & read status

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