I want to own my group messages // FB Messenger *shudder* serenawho.com
@vishae are there any group messaging services which you “own”? I mean iMessage is just apple’s walled garden right? (I totally get not wanting to use fbook)
@ChrisJWilson you’re right about that.
I guess what I mean is that I would love for group messaging to become platform agnostic - and in this scenario, I’m calling Line and iMessage platforms as well.
Like how email works currently (or one-on-one SMS), I can send you an email from Gmail using the Spark app and you don’t need either of those apps/services to receive my message.
@vishae good comparison. I wonder if RCS which google supports in its new “chat” service could be the answer? With Google’s support it probably has a better chance than any. I’d love Apple to support that.
@vishae @ChrisJWilson once upon a time there was XMPP and even Google Talk used to support it. That somehow withered away, though.
@lostfocus @ChrisJWilson I can’t help but feel that in this day and age of big corporate companies and proprietary systems, there’s little chance of something as open as email being created and allowed to flourished.
@vishae @lostfocus unfortunately I think you’re right. If Apple and google could agree on something then that might be enough but I’m not sure there is enough incentive yet.
@ChrisJWilson @vishae yeah, I guess that's just going to be it. We can be nerdy here in our little IndieWeb/Microblog world, but as soon as it is something that needs to be used by everybody the ease of centralized systems might be winning out.