What I don't understand is why everyone insists on flocking to those things, and eschews the kind of platform agnostic standards that let the internet succeed so wildly in the first place. I can even understand why a company wants to lock people into its messager and only its messenger. There were dozens upon dozens of usenet and IRC clients, so you could pick one with features you wanted, but still communicate with everyone else, because they'd all abide the same underlying communication protocol.įor some reason, everyone decided that they'd rather have kik that can't talk to viber that can't talk to whatsapp that can't talk that MS one that can't talk to any of the other dozens of competing ones. For a long time, store-and-forward type messaging (usenet) and instant messengers (IRC, when it appeared) alike separated the protocol from the client. Our commitment to being The Most Secure Messaging App is strong, and we always want to do more in this space.

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