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What is interesting to me is that Slack sees themselves as a competitor to email. I feel similarly about Matrix, and I hope that the Matrix protocol does eventually gain the wide adoption seen by email. Unfortunately Slack lacks a lot of features that are necessary for it to compete with email on a wide scale:

* end-to-end encryption support (this is the main value add for email competitors)

* support for federation and self-hosting

* multiple independent client implementations




Is

> end-to-end encryption support

> multiple independent client implementations

something that your average user really wants? Most people don't use encryption, and are fine with the standard Mail app on their phones.


He means for Business (and i hope your IT-Department cares about secure communication).

And no, most people USE encryption, because they don't use Email, but Whats-App.


Fair enough.

To your second point, do people use WhatsApp because of encryption, or because of its other features / community lock-in?


They probably see themselves as a competitor primarily to email inside an organization. Very different priorities.




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