No it doesn't. It's basically a bloated and more advertised version of XMPP by some venture capital funded startup. Sadly, it doesn't build on existing internet standards like XMPP at all, so there's no real compatibility.
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Federated search is difficult. For now this is a temporary solution.
What network requests can it sniff? Shouldn't this be a browser security bug?
Imgur doesn't even load for me on Firefox Mobile + uBlockOrigin. It also tries to redirect me to their broken front end if I just want the .jpg file. I absolutely hate them and wish people would stop using it.
Ironically XMPP is a counterexample to your argument. They made the switch to mandatory TLS even though GChat didn't.
Show me a 3rd party with eye-wateringly powerful support from Democrats
How large is this eye-watering powerful support among Democrats? 50 percent? 80 percent? 100 percent? Who will in the election in those cases?
I don't use any any Google services for good reasons, but I wouldn't trust myself more not to lose my data than Google.
To be fair there are countless fads that went away again. Spicy autocomplete might very well be one of them. Not every invention has had the success of the automobile or the computers.
Können wir alle als nächstes das tolle Spiel StreetComplete spielen? Gibt's sogar auf F-Droid.
It's not hard to understand. People already trust the output of LLMs way too much because it sounds reasonable. On further inspection often it turns out to be bullshit. So LLMs increase the level of bullshit compared to the input data. Repeat a few times and the problem becomes more and more obvious.