What is GSI? Google Sucks Initiative?

From the article:

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Ah another DSA (Domain Specific Acronym). <- How hard is that?

Please for the love of god, authors, if you must use some obscure acronym to save yourself time, at least write it out the first time you use it. Instead of reading your article, I’m now skimming for what it means.

So if you don’t need to create an account, how do you know you’re talking to who you think you’re talking to?

You use your email provider’s credentials to log into the app, which then creates an IMAP folder called delta-chat which houses all those conversations.

You’d verify it’s your mom by starting a chat with “[email protected]” she’d verify it’s you by making sure it’s coming from “[email protected]”

A very small group of spoiled children with outsized wealth and political power*

I think ejabberd or another other xmpp server would have been my first choice for a service like this by a long shot. If only we had some good iOS clients to go to. While I’m on android, most of the family and some of the friends use iOS, so it was kind of a non-starter from that alone.

Edit: log -> long