What's your experience with web3 messaging (MailChain, XMTP, etc?) Curious to hear any real-life benefits you've experienced as a result of these protocols. Eg contacted NFT owner for a sale? Unified inbox simplified your workflows? Etc.
I did help some ppl in Iran onboard to Status during the Mahsa Amini protests, worked pretty well getting around their firewalls. However some functionality was broken due to Infura geoblocking on their ETH RPC.
We'll be sending digests to MailChain addresses starting tomorrow! Some users liked that MailChain let them have different identities (ENS vs e.g. .lens/.polygon handles) receiving different content, while still having those addresses in one inbox. Unsure of adoption #s for any of the web3 messaging players tho!
Most chats have been friends testing out a new thing, a few transactional and couple user feedback for people I didn’t have a good way of reaching out to. It feels inevitable.
Personally, I do not use web3 messaging. But I have played with the Push protocol. It is also used to send notifications, but my fav use case is the ability to send messages directly to your NFT collection holders. Maybe news, a digest, or whatever you want, directly and uniquely to the holders.
Really interested in the ability to contact NFT owners for various reasons. How do you do that at this point so they actually receive it?
I think Dialect is working on a way to send money as text in-chat. I haven't tried it yet but a friend sent USDC with it and said it's bonkers.
Frens rly good for group chats so far, token gating is handy
Dialect is pretty interesting. I’ve tested Push myself, but the response rate overall seems quite low. My .02c is unless it goes to my email or tg, it’s going to be hard for traction. I do think the opt-in is good. Better than the intrusive scrape and match of ens on Twitter.
Does Urbit count on Web3 messaging ? If so, really convenient, love Pongo & Reall.
I think we're on the cusp of messaging being integrated into nearly every web3 app i'm most bullish on xmtp because it enables cross-EVM/ cross-dapp messaging (e.g. from lens user to farcaster user to cb.id)
Does the one Etherscan count? I think web3 messaging has a notification issue as it doesn't yet exist on a mobile app. Plus missed messages aren't sent to the recipient's email, often the recipient has no idea that he/she received any on-chain messages.
@converseapp (built on @xmtp) helps me find on-chain friends to DM!
So far people tell me that the main benefits of @converseapp are : - discovery : meet people based on common activity onchain - convenience : start a conversation on an @xmtp client and continue on Converse Two things I'm bullish on: - token gated groups (if done well) - broadcast messages to a community
The main thing for me has been experiencing cross app messaging
