Gvs on Nostr: Probably not. Even Signal is a tiny percentage of WhatsApp. But let's say Simplex ...
Probably not. Even Signal is a tiny percentage of WhatsApp. But let's say Simplex does eat a significant percentage of the market and remains open. What is the incentive for a group to invest millions into building alternative but feature wise identical implementation?
More likely there will eventually be forks to implement things core won't
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