<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@jacqueline" class="u-url mention">@<span>jacqueline</span></a></span> how to become wildly popular:</p><p>1. fork matrix</p><p>2. remove everything but the UI, app logic, and plaintext message format serialisation stuff </p><p>3. write a server that manages chat rooms and passes the messages around. use regular TLS for cryptography.</p><p>4. job done we now have a simple open system for chatting with people that focuses on the core goal of conversation instead of trying to implement one of the hardest classes of cryptographic protocol for totally overkill reasons</p>