Lightning's for payments. We're talking about messaging.

Disagree. We just can't use their network. Luckily we made our own called Lightning.

Coinosphere

This can't be fixed with a new protocol, and the probability that they change the current one is extremely low.

We can only hope that, with time, electronic communication slowly moves to a new medium, e.g. instant messaging. This would be our second chance to make things right.

bitcoin

After self-hosting my email for 23 years I gave up. The oligopoly has won.

mrldotsh

This can't be fixed with a new protocol, and the probability that they change the current one is extremely low. 

We can only hope that, with time, electronic communication slowly moves to a new medium, e.g. instant messaging. This would be our second chance to make things right.