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Is this some kind of actually new IM, or yet another fork of XMPP/Conversations?
I made this from scratch lol
How does it work under the hood? I mean how do you hook up and teconnect with people in a decentralised manner?
It works similar to Matrix which is federated
Any pointers on how that works :-D ?
Homeserver is essentially a distributed chat relay so clients post messages to rooms and the server relays those messages to its peers
And the server is where?
Official homeserver (https://phoenixim.site/) is hosted on a VPS and all homeservers are interconnected via federation
Thanks.
So the VPS acts as a jump start or bootstrap and then it's not used any more?
If so, then I must say nice job.
If not then it's kind of a not so decentralised, right?
Yeah official homeserver also acts as a bootstrap server
Can discussions survive without it, after they have started?
yes
That is good to hear!
Thank you for your patience :-)
I see it has Tor as a dependency. Does it make use of onion routing? in which way?
Official homeserver supports federation over onion services and dockerfile hosts homeserver as onion service that's why i added Tor as a dependency
Neato. Always cool to see a new approach. Synapse/Matrix is excellent, but, running a federated Matrix server is an exercise in frustration. So many version forks, so many hard crashes. :(
i think synapse is just kind of awful. i'm running a continuwuity (fork of conduwuit) server, and it's been incredibly straightforward and painless compared to synapse