Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox [LWN.net]

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted Jun 1, 2014 3:45 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (guest, #26138)
Parent article: Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Anything to dethrone MSFT-controlled, NSA-sniffed, closed-source Skype, please. Twice. Thank you.

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Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted Jun 2, 2014 4:20 UTC (Mon) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link] (1 responses)

yeah, just like identi.ca and diaspora will overthrow facebook.

the network effects for real-time chat were settled long ago. what matters is if you can actually communicate with people you want to communicate with, not if its "open". 99% chance that is facetime/hangout/skype/whatsapp/line or something else that isn't "open" and never will be

who is left to join the "standards-based" world of realtime communication?

Mozilla to build WebRTC chat into Firefox

Posted Jun 3, 2014 17:03 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (guest, #51848) [Link]

The network effects for real time chat aren't so great; many people only use it to communicate with a few people; I'd guess the median was 1 other person (e.g. family member in a foreign country). If mobile phones had been replaced by voip, you'd be right, but that seems a way off yet, at least for most people.

I have had no trouble getting the few people I need to talk to with voip to install and use jitsi.