Is this some kind of actually new IM, or yet another fork of XMPP/Conversations?
this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2025
114 points (97.5% liked)
Open Source
42136 readers
380 users here now
All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!
Useful Links
- Open Source Initiative
- Free Software Foundation
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Software Freedom Conservancy
- It's FOSS
- Android FOSS Apps Megathread
Rules
- Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
- No NSFW content
- No hate speech, bigotry, etc
Related Communities
- !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
- !libre_software@lemmy.ml
- !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
- !linux@lemmy.ml
- !technology@lemmy.ml
Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
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
does it work across LAN or p2p Bluetooth without WAN like Briar, Cwtch, etc?
Only looked at the Cargo.toml files.
- (pet peeve) Considering there is (presumably) no compatibility concerns, why not use an efficient binary format instead of JSON?
- Not checking in
Cargo.lockfiles, and using=dependency versions forPhoenix_Desktop, is a bit odd!
can you create a flatpak, appimage, or something rather than the binary?
Will nostr consider decentralised end to end encrypted ?
Why?
Why not?
Because we already have hundreds of them?