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If it's proprietary it makes no difference at all. The app could be sending my password off to a remote server and I would have no way of knowing.

Seems to be a proprietary application so app privacy went out the window already.

Anything you can make HTTP requests in really. I have messed around with sending messages from Ruby and Bash and it's quite easy. And a lot more easy if there is an SDK for your language which will handle a few things for you.

If you are in a few group chats long polling is pretty efficient as there is almost always new content before the request times out.

Phone number/email verification is also still centralized as no one has worked out any other way.

Thats what happens when you run proprietary apps, It becomes impossible for the community to port them to new OSs. Consider moving to Matrix which will work on anything that someone has built a client for it on.

They are usually capped to 250W and 25KM/h. Anyone half fit could blast past 4x as fast on a regular bike than on an ebike. The benifit of an ebike is you get to your destination with minimal sweat and get about as much exercise as walking.

I had an electric bike for a while. It worked well but it couldn't last my daily trip of 70KM so for a decent chunk of the time I was dragging along all the extra weight so I sold it and got a nice light road bike. If you are only going about 40km between charges it's perfect.

And illegal in most places. Usually you are capped at 25KM/h

Some pages have there own websites which get ad views and the reposts help drive traffic to their website

Sorta like torrents vs dropbox.

storj is for paying people to store your personal data and ipfs is more for public data.

Of course you can use ipfs for private data too