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How does Jami work if I have multiple devices? For example, I want to connect on my work PC, my home PC, and my phone, share the same account, and see all the

by skrowl 4y ago

How does Jami work if I have multiple devices? For example, I want to connect on my work PC, my home PC, and my phone, share the same account, and see all the messages I sent/received on my work PC when I log into my home PC. This is traditionally the worst UX problem with Signal / Session / Matrix etc. Manually handing keys back and forth is a disaster. Compare that to something like Telegram or WhatsApp where you can just log on and everything is there.

bandali 4y ago
Jami has "Swarm" conversations, which are git-backed behind the scenes, and can be synchronized across multiple devices and/or participants seamlessly. Actually, thanks to the way Jami uses git, a subset of participants in a group conversation could enter a local network and continue chatting amongst themselves, and once they connect with the rest of the participants again their histories will automatically be synchronized and merged. You can read more about Swarm here: https://jami.net/synchronizing-conversation-history-with-swarm/ https://jami.net/synchronizing-conversation-history-with-swa... To add a new device, from account settings select 'Link another device'. This will create an encrypted archive of your account details and temporarily (for 10 minutes) put it on the OpenDHT network, and give you a PIN which you would use on your new device to have Jami retrieve and import your account. You could also do this manually and without going through OpenDHT, by having Jami create a local backup of your account on your current device, and then transfer the backup archive onto your new device yourself, and import it into Jami. After adding the new device, your Swarm conversations and their histories will begin synchronizing shortly.
- eternityforest 4y ago
  Wow, that's amazing progress. All that's missing is friends who are interested in it! They're doing cool enough stuff that it seems like they could attract real attention eventually though.
- dead10ck 4y ago
  Is this for real? They really thought git was an appropriate tool on which to build a messaging service?

by skrowl 4y ago

bandali 4y ago

Jami has "Swarm" conversations, which are git-backed behind the scenes, and can be synchronized across multiple devices and/or participants seamlessly. Actually, thanks to the way Jami uses git, a subset of participants in a group conversation could enter a local network and continue chatting amongst themselves, and once they connect with the rest of the participants again their histories will automatically be synchronized and merged. You can read more about Swarm here: https://jami.net/synchronizing-conversation-history-with-swarm/ https://jami.net/synchronizing-conversation-history-with-swa... To add a new device, from account settings select 'Link another device'. This will create an encrypted archive of your account details and temporarily (for 10 minutes) put it on the OpenDHT network, and give you a PIN which you would use on your new device to have Jami retrieve and import your account. You could also do this manually and without going through OpenDHT, by having Jami create a local backup of your account on your current device, and then transfer the backup archive onto your new device yourself, and import it into Jami. After adding the new device, your Swarm conversations and their histories will begin synchronizing shortly.

eternityforest 4y ago
Wow, that's amazing progress. All that's missing is friends who are interested in it! They're doing cool enough stuff that it seems like they could attract real attention eventually though.
dead10ck 4y ago
Is this for real? They really thought git was an appropriate tool on which to build a messaging service?