>People say, "services are easy because you can upgrade them centrally, so you can avoid slow-to-upgrade users making everyone's lives worse."
> But this assumes that slow-to-upgrade users can have negative effects on everyone else.
Is the above a reference to Moxie Marlinspike's comments[1]?
So would a concrete example of your abstract essay be that communication should be a client utility that uses an XMPP library[2] instead of Signal's services?
> But this assumes that slow-to-upgrade users can have negative effects on everyone else.
Is the above a reference to Moxie Marlinspike's comments[1]?
So would a concrete example of your abstract essay be that communication should be a client utility that uses an XMPP library[2] instead of Signal's services?
[1] https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
[2] https://xmpp.org/software/libraries.html