Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursamundi.org>]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

>>> In Korea, all most people are using KakaoTalk (android app).
>>> If i am wrong, sorry, and let it go to off-topic.
>> It's not decentralized.  IOW you're dependent on one central
>> server/company and everything goes through them, they get an insane
>> amount of data and power this way.

Of course, another major problem with it, AFAICT, is that there's no
Free Software client for it.

For Android, there's Serval Mesh, available on Google Play and f-droid.org.  But depends on actually coming across a wifi hotspot with other serval users connected at the same time you are to pass messages store-and-forward style...