@simba Nope. I have heard of it, but I haven't tried it personally. Something tells me that if I'm going to be staying in touch with people in a place like Mastodon, I'll either need to install a dozen obscure IM apps, or find a 2018 equivalent to Trillian.

@thor That's why I'm urging people toward Matrix, it's early in development but ambitious and already sporting a lot of great modern and working features.

I think people want chat that works like E-mail. Why are corporations in control of universal authentication? There should be a standard of identity and authentication with a central open source code project but distributed private servers.

There's ways but really complicated.

It'd work for chat & email and microblogs and comments etc

@thor it'd be cool to see an international working group of however large it needs to be, programmers and engineers and logistics experts etc, spending a few years planning an "Internet 3.0" with new protocol standards and so on.

There could be a month long public idea submission period with like 6 months prep time, then time to review ideas and implement a plan.

humans wont do it tho theyd rather kill each other for booze and oil.

@staticsafe @thor Me too!

@demonkind I'm aware of that, but a microblogging service doesn't quite lead to the same interactions as a chat box.

@xrevan86 I'm reading that as "NOT XMPP"...