[HN Gopher] Databag - tiny self-hosted federated messenger for t...
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       Databag - tiny self-hosted federated messenger for the
       decentralized web
        
       Author : triyambakam
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2023-07-22 18:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | opendomain wrote:
       | How is this decentralized? The website says direct communication
       | between app and server node. Decentralized would be peer to peer.
        
         | maxpert wrote:
         | Exactly my question as well? Its like saying Tabasco the
         | sweetest honey in the market!
        
         | mhluongo wrote:
         | It also says "federated". Assuming that's actually the case,
         | and that servers talk to eachother
        
         | jacoblambda wrote:
         | It's decentralised as in federation. There is no central host,
         | only instances that users can pick from (or self host). And to
         | make it more than just a self hosted service, those instance
         | hosts can link their networks together and allow users to
         | interact across the greater web of federated instances.
         | 
         | So it's decentralised in the sense that Mastodon or Matrix are.
        
         | Ambolia wrote:
         | If the identity is based on a cryptographic key, I assume you
         | can move your account to a different server? Even without help
         | from the original server. But not sure how easy to move the
         | contacts in that case.
        
       | RileyJames wrote:
       | I'm assuming this can only be used to chat with other
       | users/instances of databag, for now.
       | 
       | But is the vision to be able to "DM" with users on instances of
       | mastodon, Lemmy, etc?? (anything that supports activity pub)
        
       | pmlnr wrote:
       | Is there anything this can do and XMPP with OMEMO can't?
        
         | singpolyma3 wrote:
         | Architecture looks identical to XMPP, just different tech
         | stack.
        
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