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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (31 children)

unfortunately matrix sucks revolt isn’t federated and irc is outdated so

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (13 children)

I just learned about Matrix recently. Seems like something that'd be good. What sucks about it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

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