message gets delivered when sender and receiver can contact each other. that's the only way to go without involving intermediaries.

(in groups, any peer that receives a message can pass it on to others later)

the need for others to share the same platform is somewhat artificial: we'd be better off with protocols that multiple different programs and platforms could use to exchange messages. but the centralizing 'app' mentality pushes us the wrong way. Email, XMPP and the Fediverse, for some examples, have different servers and different clients, and they all interoperate to some degree. now, maybe you consider the protocol as the platform.

anyhow, GNU Jami would likely benefit from different applications, including TUI and CLI. GUIs are often inconvenient and constraining.

we don't need server, so we can't need server integration.

phone book? what phone?!? who needs anachronic phone numbers when we can have mnemonic nicknames (backed by crypto-strong hashes) that are not traceable to a tracking device?

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