> but I blame the "everything is an extension" model ...
100%. If you're not keen on self-hosting and want to use any one of the many, many public servers this becomes such a pain, and leads to the same "decision deadlock" trying to get friends to join Mastodon or Lemmy ("which one do I want? there are so many, how do I know if it's good"). Because this is a thing:
https://compliance.conversations.im/
"Hmmm, does xyz.com support XEP-1234 for message archiving?" or whatever it is; there's a real uphill social battle unless you make those choices for your friends to get started. While Signal is not perfect, it's easy onboarding without confusing XEP which-server choices for the average human. $0.02 I struggle to get people on Signal as it is.
Edit: found it, it's XEP-0313 and only 92% of public servers support it. Only 86% support Push Notifications, 94% OMEMO. One can argue server operators have disabled them but it points back to decision deadlock.
Quicksy is run by the same guy who developed Conversations and this compliance test btw. It will work for its target audience. If you know what a XEP is, you don't need Quicksy.
100%. If you're not keen on self-hosting and want to use any one of the many, many public servers this becomes such a pain, and leads to the same "decision deadlock" trying to get friends to join Mastodon or Lemmy ("which one do I want? there are so many, how do I know if it's good"). Because this is a thing:
"Hmmm, does xyz.com support XEP-1234 for message archiving?" or whatever it is; there's a real uphill social battle unless you make those choices for your friends to get started. While Signal is not perfect, it's easy onboarding without confusing XEP which-server choices for the average human. $0.02 I struggle to get people on Signal as it is.Edit: found it, it's XEP-0313 and only 92% of public servers support it. Only 86% support Push Notifications, 94% OMEMO. One can argue server operators have disabled them but it points back to decision deadlock.