What's the rationale behind basing your messenger on Mattermost?
What made it the preferred choice compared to others and how is your messenger going to step out of mattermost's shadow to establish its own identity?
Is there likely to be brand conflict between your messenger and its inspiration?
As far as I understand from reading the wp, they use a controlled messaging application (in this case mattermost) not to depend on a third party, when the amfeed businesses start.
All related businesses will be in that place, being able to control spam and have everything organized.
But the team can explain it to us better
I see. However, discord could achieve just as much without the need to commandeer an entire app development. I'm more worried if Mattermost licensing allows people to fork their product for public use. Feels like a legal case down the line
It's an odd thing to pick up on, but Mattermost is an open source messenger app that freely allows anyone to fork its core code and adapt for their own purposes (that's the whole point of it in fact) so a lawsuit is impossible. In terms of the broader appeal and how that might be captured, this is pretty interesting. There are a number of aspects to this, but essentially, there are 3 core reasons AMFeed Messenger will be so popular:
1) Interface based on Mattermost design is a lot like a Telegram/Discord hybrid and a lot more friendly for mobile than Discord (and to be completely frank, without being cheap and nasty like Telegram or a little too clunky like Discord, for most average investor's tastes)
2) By offering projects AMF incentives to bring their teams and communities onto the Messenger platform, I think it'll be easy for AMFeed to quickly rally a vibrant and diverse community onto their better-looking app than any of the others have been able to do before now
3) Remember that AMFeed is a Premium service, for the most part. All the wallets except for the web wallet, the data feeds and the Premium areas of the Messenger are purchased in the form of a License Code which is sold for (Previous Block Reward x Present Block Reward) AMF on an annual basis (and has to thus be repurchased a year later for whatever the new number of AMF bsed on the rewards status at that time is). Thus, being Premium, one might expect to see far higher-profile whales and Blockchain celebrities on that platform than say, one regularly encounters everyday in public groups on Telegram
Hopefully this answers what is an unusual but interesting issue to pick up on. Once again, these sorts of fresh additions to the crypto scene will be far more familiar to regular financial market traders, who are used to a somewhat more closed environment than the one Blockchain application developers currently offer their users. Most financial markets investors use a Bloomberg and a Reuters, both indeed equipped with messenger tools, and the premium messaging application can be expected to be one of the many natural scaling points in the AMFeed product offering for this reason too.