nemesis1733@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 20 hours agoA decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat applemmy.mlimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up167arrow-down1imageA decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat applemmy.mlnemesis1733@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 20 hours agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·19 hours 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-down1·18 hours agoIt works similar to Matrix which is federated
minus-squareFerk@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 hour agoI see it has Tor as a dependency. Does it make use of onion routing? in which way?
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 minutes agoOfficial homeserver supports federation over onion services and dockerfile hosts homeserver as onion service that’s why i added Tor as a dependency
minus-squarenemesis1733@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 minutes agoHomeserver is essentially a distributed chat relay so clients post messages to rooms and the server relays those messages to its peers
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
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
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