nemesis1733@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 23 days agoA decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat applemmy.mlimagemessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1115arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·22 days agoHow does it work under the hood? I mean how do you hook up and teconnect with people in a decentralised manner?
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·22 days agoIt works similar to Matrix which is federated
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 days agoHomeserver is essentially a distributed chat relay so clients post messages to rooms and the server relays those messages to its peers
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·22 days agoOfficial homeserver (https://phoenixim.site/) is hosted on a VPS and all homeservers are interconnected via federation
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-221 days agoThanks. 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?
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·21 days agoYeah official homeserver also acts as a bootstrap server
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 days agoCan discussions survive without it, after they have started?
minus-squareFerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-222 days agoI see it has Tor as a dependency. Does it make use of onion routing? in which way?
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 days agoOfficial homeserver supports federation over onion services and dockerfile hosts homeserver as onion service that’s why i added Tor as a dependency
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?
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