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nemesis1733@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

A decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat app

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A decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat app

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nemesis1733@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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Source code and details: https://git.disroot.org/Phoenix

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    It works similar to Matrix which is federated

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      Any pointers on how that works :-D ?

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        Homeserver is essentially a distributed chat relay so clients post messages to rooms and the server relays those messages to its peers

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          And the server is where?

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            Official homeserver (https://phoenixim.site/) is hosted on a VPS and all homeservers are interconnected via federation

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              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?

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                Yeah official homeserver also acts as a bootstrap server

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                  19 hours ago

                  Can discussions survive without it, after they have started?

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                    yes

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      I see it has Tor as a dependency. Does it make use of onion routing? in which way?

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        Official homeserver supports federation over onion services and dockerfile hosts homeserver as onion service that’s why i added Tor as a dependency

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