Signal started out with wanting to build a federalized and interoperable platform but after a while concluded that it’s a bad idea because it siffles the ability to innovate. Email still isn’t end-to-end encrypted by default. I do use Signal to communicate with my friends over using email. I likely wouldn’t if their would be no desktop version of Signal (the breaking change that ended their interoperability).
On the more hopeful side, Protocol Labs does good work with IPFS, OrbitDB, AvionDB and FileCoin. Microsoft providing an open protocol with ION is also good news.
Signal started out with wanting to build a federalized and interoperable platform but after a while concluded that it’s a bad idea because it siffles the ability to innovate. Email still isn’t end-to-end encrypted by default. I do use Signal to communicate with my friends over using email. I likely wouldn’t if their would be no desktop version of Signal (the breaking change that ended their interoperability).
On the more hopeful side, Protocol Labs does good work with IPFS, OrbitDB, AvionDB and FileCoin. Microsoft providing an open protocol with ION is also good news.