• BangCrash@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        If only they could develop a federated short message system.

        Messenger/WhatsApp/slack messaging style but federated like email

        • Rachel@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          16 days ago

          Email was originally one of the first federated systems. Anyone can host a server and send messages back and forth from other servers with a set standard. That basically is federation.

        • ubergeek@lemmy.today
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          15 days ago

          Email is federated, it’s just not really a medium people want to limit to 500 chars…

          Nothing at all stopping you from writing a client that only allows 500 char messages in and out.

          Someone even built a chat system that used email under the hood.