I've said it before and will say it again: email is one of the best things technology has ever accomplished. Such a pity that IM over Email hasn't caught on yet, and the world feels chaffing fatigue like this
https://youtube.com/shorts/8FrRhXKCA4U?feature=share

@worldsendless There have been apps that do this.

@AmpBenzScientist Yep. Delta Chat does it very literally. But really all IM is very close to email; it's just something about its appearance that leads us to treat it formally.

@worldsendless @AmpBenzScientist The expected low-latency of instant messaging is what drives the behavior and assumptions around it, I think.

@lispi314 @AmpBenzScientist funny thing is, in practice, the latency is pretty much the same for email (hence so much 2FA)

@worldsendless @AmpBenzScientist Yeah, the design of the SMTP protocol is *very* lenient by today's network reliability and uptime standards.