A brand new messaging app is coming to the Fediverse, and it's all thanks to the creator of Pixelfed.

A new messaging app is in development, and the project is described as “an open source WhatsApp for the Fediverse.”

  • Sean TilleyOPMEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I personally really like Matrix, but there are a few outstanding complaints about it. The biggest one is that the reference implementation everyone uses by default is known to be bloated and slow, and poor at scaling. Server admins have had a huge challenge of supporting a large amount of data for things like room history, which in the past required propagation to every server hosting every participant. The protocol itself has been described by some developers as overtly complex.

    Some of this seems to be improving, particularly with development of a Go-based backend implementation, Dendrite.

      • Sean TilleyOPMEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        It’s funny. When I was typing my original response, I was under the impression that Dendrite was Rust-based! 😂 I’m really glad I checked before posting!

    • Strypey
      3•1 year ago

      @deadsuperhero
      > the reference implementation everyone uses by default is known to be bloated and slow, and poor at scaling

      This doesn’t seem to stop the fediverse growing (*cough* Mastodon *cough*).

      @Terevos

      • Strypey
        2•1 year ago

        @deadsuperhero
        > development of a Go-based backend implementation, Dendrite

        Also Rust-based homeserver implementations like Construct and Conduit. Both of which are usable, although missing a few nice-to-have added features. Eg Conduit is still working on;

        “E2EE emoji comparison over federation (E2EE chat works)… Outgoing read receipts, typing, presence over federation”

        @Terevos @Samsy

    • @[email protected]
      2•1 year ago

      Good to know. I signed up for beeper.com which seems cool. I am a bit concerned about data collection and privacy, so I’m trying to set up my own instance.