Thread: [Fremantle Maemo5+Harmattan Maemo6] Ring - secure and distributed voice, video and chat platform
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dovf is offline dovf
2016-11-07 , 10:51
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Originally Posted by chrm View Post
Do you know XMPP transports?
The problem with such extensions is that someone has to maintain them. Its useless to have a "WhatsApp" transport which do not work because of protocol changes.
Of course, that's why I am not advocating WhatsApp, which is actively blocking connections from outside its network. So I don't expect to ever see a WhatsApp-matrix bridge (any more than I expect to see a ring-WA bridge, or a tox-WA bridge, or an XMPP-WA bridge, or anything bridge with WA).

But if we're discussing alternatives to the closed, central networks, I wanted to point out that there *is* something in between central and p2p (namely, federated); and an implementation of such a network which seems to be Done Right (namely, matrix).

And this in-between thing exactly answers the problems being discussed here with p2p (namely, transmission of messages when one of the parties is offline...).
 

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