Hello Mastodon Family! Lena here from marketing. I'm writing an article on instant messengers with interoperability and I'm looking for some more information on what actually makes a messenger interoperable. I thought of focusing on: Element, Delta, and SimpleX but I'm open to other suggestions! Could anyone kindly advise? ☺️
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@Tutanota Hi Lena! I’ll do my best to answer this. Basically, if people don’t have to use the same exact app or the same company’s service to talk to each other, that’s interoperability. Maybe the best example today is likely two services: @delta & Nostr based chat apps. Signal doesn’t fit this description unfortunately because you’re still using the same server and it runs on AWS - nothing else.
@Tutanota Hi, Lena from the marketing department, what do you mean by "combine"? Where there's a collective farm, there's chaos.
@Tutanota I could be thinking completely differently than where you are, but I would go for Matrix rather than Element. Element is cool, but it's the protocol behind it (Matrix) that truly makes Element interoperable. Without Matrix being an open and federated standard, Element would just be another closed chat app that doesn't allow people to speak with anyone unless they use Element. With Matrix I can speak not only to anyone on the Matrix network, but also a bunch of other bridged chat protocols. Incredible!
