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If Signal were to up and die, maybe. But I don't see the advantage this has over a Signal room with disappearing messages enabled. And Signal's advantage is that me and my entire network is already on it.

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This would something like Chatrooms only. No direct messages. I am trying to recreate the early IRC experience, with privacy in mind. I am not trying to upend Signal or WhatsApp. Would that change your opinion?

Edit: thanks for the feedback

You're late to the party. Matrix & Element do a fine job at this, and can be easily customized.

I am just looking for a side gig, so I don't mind competition. In fact it helps me. I don't need to do much market validation.

Thank you for pointing me towards these.

If you want to do anything, build it on-top of Matrix (the protocol).

I appreciate you having that clarity of vision, unfortunately I haven't spent a whole lot of time on IRC. This does sound similar to what Matrix does, though.

Every conversation on Matrix is a room. A "direct message" is just a room with two people in it.

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