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Also working on a Discord alternative, albeit my project is a decentralized version — neat to see the space has traction. One thing I couldn’t quickly surmise:
by cassonmars 5y ago
Also working on a Discord alternative, albeit my project is a decentralized version — neat to see the space has traction. One thing I couldn’t quickly surmise: it looks like your services are centralized and neither servers/spaces (whatever terminology you’re using for logical groupings of communities) nor DMs have support for encryption. Do you have plans to support this? I don’t mean to ask this as a FUD spreader, I just am curious how you differentiate from Discord aside from being open source, and similarly, how you intend to ensure your offering stays open source in perpetuity?
- olah_1 5y agoIs it that "Howler chat" app? Is it usable today?
- Zomatree 5y agoHi, one of the revolt developers here, we plan to have e2ee on DMs.
- iruoy 5y agoAre group chats going to be encrypted aswell?
- Zomatree 5y agoGroup DMs will be encrypted as well
- fragileone 5y agoAny reason why you think groups shouldn't be able to have private chats?
- Zomatree 5y agoGroup DMs will be encrypted as well
- antcas 5y agoDo you have a link to your project or a way to follow your progress? I'm interested in decentralized community platforms.
- schmorptron 5y agoI was curious too, on their profile it says "Howler", so I'd assume it's this? https://github.com/HowlerChat/Howler https://github.com/HowlerChat/Howler
- cassonmars 5y agoCorrect — I suspended development on the repository a few weeks ago to switch from launching centralized and federated initially to going fully decentralized at the start of the public beta. I’m taking the time to work on an extension to double ratchet to extend to group conversations but avoid a painful group ECDH key rotation scheme or take on integrity compromises like with megolm.
- Yoric 5y agoAny reason to not use the Matrix protocol underneath?
- napworth 5y agoWhat's your plan for keeping Nazi's off the system?