[HN Gopher] Databag - tiny self-hosted federated messenger for t... ___________________________________________________________________ Databag - tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the decentralized web Author : triyambakam Score : 46 points Date : 2023-07-22 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | opendomain wrote: | How is this decentralized? The website says direct communication | between app and server node. Decentralized would be peer to peer. | maxpert wrote: | Exactly my question as well? Its like saying Tabasco the | sweetest honey in the market! | mhluongo wrote: | It also says "federated". Assuming that's actually the case, | and that servers talk to eachother | jacoblambda wrote: | It's decentralised as in federation. There is no central host, | only instances that users can pick from (or self host). And to | make it more than just a self hosted service, those instance | hosts can link their networks together and allow users to | interact across the greater web of federated instances. | | So it's decentralised in the sense that Mastodon or Matrix are. | Ambolia wrote: | If the identity is based on a cryptographic key, I assume you | can move your account to a different server? Even without help | from the original server. But not sure how easy to move the | contacts in that case. | RileyJames wrote: | I'm assuming this can only be used to chat with other | users/instances of databag, for now. | | But is the vision to be able to "DM" with users on instances of | mastodon, Lemmy, etc?? (anything that supports activity pub) | pmlnr wrote: | Is there anything this can do and XMPP with OMEMO can't? | singpolyma3 wrote: | Architecture looks identical to XMPP, just different tech | stack. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-22 23:00 UTC)