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I'm thinking no discovery of topics or people. No hashtag support. None of that shit. Basically just email-over-activitypub. You give it addresses for people you want to talk to and then it happens. Just like with phone numbers and SMS/MMS. Make it e2e encrypted if you like, or not.

The difference from email is I could have my nice iMessage like experience over here, and you can be stuck in Mastodon DM user experience hell on your end if you so choose. Choice!

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@darius At this point I feel like it would be more useful to simply make a mastodon-to-matrix bridge.

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Darius Kazemi

If you went the e2e route in the current ecosystem you'd have some kind of Signal-style lock-in where you'd need people running the same client on both ends, but you'd be bouncing around encrypted messages via activitypub, I guess? idk. just spitballin here people

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Kee Hinckley

@darius Isn’t this (except for E2E) just a UI issue? Several of the iOS clients I’ve used offer a choice of conversation threads vs. stream of messages for DMs. I actually have no idea how the default web UI for Mastodon does it, even when I use the web, I tend to use Elk or some other web client.

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@darius Yes please.

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Magess :heart_ace:

@darius I recall @dansup throwing around an idea for an instant messenger

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