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Fediverse

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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

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

Getting started on Fediverse;

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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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[–] smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix is getting better on fast peace, we need to give it another yew years to fix biggest holes I guess.

ActivityPub based chat is going to suck much. Like basing chat on RSS or FTP, it can be done but why. Unless we're talking just about replicating Instagram-like DMs then maybeee? But I still would like to just add link to Matrix in bio instead of having chat in yet another place.

[–] spaduf@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Unless we’re talking just about replicating Instagram-like DMs

I think that's exactly the niche this intends to fill. This is facebook messenger for the fediverse.