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		kgraves on March 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discord Is Having an Outage I agree that the masses use this, but I'm not sure that you can compare email to WhatsApp, maybe a fair comparison would be _instant_ messengers. Also open source?, I doubt it.

contravariant on March 16, 2020 | [–]

The protocol is open, even if the most commonly used implementations may not be.

As for secure, well that's a whole other matter.

gsich on March 17, 2020 | [–]

Mails are usually instant.

Yes, open source.

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