@futureisfoss @aral @octonion888 Yep.
What I'm building with @interpeer is similar enough from 10,000ft, but is really less about "a messenger" or "a social media app", and more about re-imagining a generic (stack of) protocols where HTTP and TCP would be nowadays, with a tentative view to pushing into IP extensions (rather than replacing IP, though I'm open to that in principle).
Because of that genericity, a whole lot of individually relatively small things are different from...