Subj : Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
To   : Andeddu
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Jul 17 2021 08:53:30

  Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
  By: Andeddu to Arelor on Sat Jul 17 2021 03:06 am

 >   Re: Re: KICQ as an "Old New I
 >   By: Arelor to Andeddu on Thu Jul 15 2021 08:30 am
 > 
 >  > Or you use a program that incorporates all the functionality you need but
 >  > works in a federated manned. Something like Retroshare, which provides ch
 >  > and forums, videos and filesharing and what else, but each user runs thei
 >  > own instances.
 > 
 >  > Think of email, in which you have your own email server but may send
 >  > messages to people who uses a different email server.
 > 
 > I am sure is great and all but for something to be viable it has to be used 
 > much of the population. I could probably have a small cluster of friends on 
 > niche application such as Retroshare but then I would still have to use
 > WhatsApp to speak with the rest of the normies in my chat group. I am not
 > saying that WhatsApp, FaceBook and Twitter, etc... are all amazing but the
 > superior versions run by companies that respect privacy are not known by the
 > wider population.
 > 

I think if some niche software you can use with your small group of friends, it
*is* a viable program.

I have 2000+ contacts in my address book and I only talk to 4 of them
regularly. Most often by phone. You don't need a program that lets you talk to
three million people, you need a program that lets you talk to the five people
who matters to you.

This is specially true because mainstream messengers are so abused that a
message you send is unlikely to be read on time if it is urgent. I have a
professional phone with some mainstream messenger installed and it is close to
useless. People are just sick of messengers and just does not check them out
very often anymore. Or they just check the chats of the three people who
matters to them.

But well, I suppose BBS are not viable since they are unknown to the wider
population XD


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