• ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    This is a great idea, but it would be difficult to manage.

    It reminds me of the instant messenger wars during the late 1990s/early 2000s.

    AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) had a virtual monopoly on the industry, and so when Microsoft started breaking into it with MSN Messenger they cracked AIM’s protocol so their users could communicate with AIM users. This enraged AOL, and there was a wild cat-and-mouse updates battle for a few months. AOL would push an update to block Microsoft, then Microsoft would push an update to get around that. Sometimes there were multiple updates from both sides per day.

    And then there was Trillian messenger just sneaking through the middle providing access to both, mostly unnoticed (at least for a while).