New desktop isn’t electron, and of course it’ll need your email, it’s a chat app.

But the real cool thing is that it’s a matrix client (that federates!) and all the bridges are open source, the company maintains most all of the bridges to corporate chat platforms.

Charlie: How do you know what I think ATProto is?

Um… Hello, uh… Charlie. Obviously I don’t really know what you think. It’s just that the title “ATProto might not be what you think” didn’t roll of the tongue the same way, so I shortened it for marketing’s sake.

Reposted from my comment on the other post:

Firefox is the only fully open source direct-to-consumer product that operates at such a large scale, and there is a ton of regulatory pressure on them to be as forthright as possible in stuff like the tos and privacy policy, and since they’re the only one they can’t learn from others mistakes.

Combine that with legalese sounding scary and Mozilla not being great at communication (they’re trying though, remember we heard about this from a blog post) and you get the current situation.