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I would be surprised if most people had desktop email clients. And of those who do, I imagine most of them didn't even see "SMTP" on the setup screen, or have since forgotten.
Likewise, most people have no idea what the difference is between SMS and MMS, or even why phones will send one type vs the other. Mostly people just complained "my picture won't send" even during the height of the protocols.
"Why we’re updating our pricing" mostly says more people are using it than ever, not that they've made enough changes to warrant getting extra money.
And I guess that's technically true. If people are too locked into their platform, then that's a great reason for them to update their pricing: to benefit themselves over creators.
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OTR is a janky kind of encryption that doesn't have a modern analogue any more. It requires both (or all?) participants to be connected to each other simultaneously in order for messaging to work.
With mobile devices, this is very bad.
It's also not doing great:
XEP-0364: Current Off-the-Record Messaging Usage
WARNING: This document has been automatically Deferred after 12 months of inactivity in its previous Experimental state....
It's also one of three different encryption standards...
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XMPP's problem is it got stuck in the federated protocol mire a long time ago, and never escaped it.
The protocol was never made for most modern things:
- Depending on how you look at it, there is either no encryption standard, or there are roughly three encryption standards with varying levels of completeness.
- Multi device support got approved as "stable" last year, but there's no reason to assume clients all implement it evenly.
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