[smpl@discuss.tchncs.de]

[pika@sh.itjust.works]

That right there is going to kill any chance of me getting any of my friends to use it. Which is unfortunate and a side effect of not having a centralized server.

But when you're trying to get someone to start using your app, trying to convince them to at least open the app once a day to make it so it's able to be open in the background is a pretty hard ask of a lot of people

[smpl@discuss.tchncs.de]

You're right in pointing out the problems with decentralized message synchronization, though I was only trying to point out the fact that no known technology is capable of real-time messaging unless both parties are online