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Re: Messed up Email

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On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 16:51:21 +0300
Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Well, apparently lots of people[1] seem very upset about and hell bent 
> to change Signal's (the service) policies on federation, third-party 
> clients, etc.
> 
> Why? There's Matrix, that already has all that. Why insist that 
> everybody else has to do that as well? Live and let live, anyone?
> 
> [1] not referring to anyone in particular

Should we not criticize software and services that we find problematic
just because alternatives exist? Moreover, I suspect that Signal's
dominance plays a role in hindering the growth of things like Matrix -
when all the privacy and security Big Names rave over Signal and push
it so strongly, then due to network effects (within the privacy and
security conscious community), it becomes more and more necessary to
use it.

This is similar to what I assume many Signal users feel about WhatsApp
- frustration that they have an altogether far superior solution, that
they are severely hampered in their ability to use because everyone
else is using the inferior solution ;)

(Please don't get me wrong - I agree that Signal is a far, far,
superior alternative to WhatsApp, and that the difference between them
is much greater than the difference between Signal and Matrix - I just
mean that people always criticize the shortcomings of dominant software
systems in order to promote the ones they consider preferable and to
increase their usage, which renders them much more useful due to
network effects.)

Celejar

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        Re: Messed up Email Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-06-22 21:40 +0200
      Re: Messed up Email Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-06-23 14:00 +0200
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            Re: Messed up Email Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-24 00:30 +0200
              Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-24 20:10 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-06-24 20:20 +0200
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                Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 17:40 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-06-26 13:50 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 16:00 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 18:00 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-28 09:30 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 17:50 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 17:30 +0200
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                Re: Messed up Email Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 12:10 +0200
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                Re: Messed up Email Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 12:20 +0200
                Re: Messed up Email Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-06-27 17:20 +0200

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