Fully agree. Although, I think reform of the system is beneficial both to investors and employees. I've seen investors lose significant amounts of money due to structuring things the way they have been insisting upon.
An essay on why many engineers rationally value private-company equity at $0, focusing on information asymmetry, liquidity constraints, and incentive shifts in venture-backed startups.
The NATS project originally came out of CloudFoundry, and gnatsd later out of Apcera. I worked for Apcera while we were maintaining gnatsd. Docker and Kubernetes basically put that company out of business -- the founder went and started Synadia which was focused on NATS instead of container orchestration.
I think nats is a great technology for a number of use cases. It's unfortunate that it's so hard to find the resources to support and maintain open source software while paying developer salaries.
Derek put a ton of work, effort, and money into NATS.
It's a sad story to me; I don't know what the answer is to these sorts of "tragedy of the commons" type issues are.
This happened with both myself and my sister. Thankfully, I dropped out and started attending community college where I could proceed at my own pace. I don’t think a lot of parents are aware of this option.
Seems fine until you do this kind of stuff over “identity groups.” This view taken beyond an individual level seems to be the cause of the current negative social situation.
Until spam becomes a problem on XMPP... And then we're back to the same problems as email.
I'm working with some people to build out Stamp which is federated in a similar way to XMPP but attaches small cryptopayments to keep undue about of spam off the network.
This is definitely coming down the pipe. I think it's extremely imported to come up with an alternative to the existing centralized systems; which I believe primarily exist in order to mitigate spam.
Some people have been working on an interesting solution called StampChat which has a similar topology to email, but the messages are encrypted by default and the spam mitigation is done via sending tokens to the recipient (ala Hal Finney's RPoW) idea.
Considering the way delta chat chat works; that doesn’t matter much. Approximately nobody has that client installed. And SMTP is not ideal for these things.
Also, there's another app being worked on called Stamp is a similar messaging system as well, but uses an HTTP based transport instead of SMTP.
The things that set Stamp apart is that is has:
* Spam mitigation in the base layer so relay operators don't need to deal with it
* An indirect address lookup system so you don't get tied to one Stamp provider.
* No attachment to PII to start accounts. (No phone number or email required)