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The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/technology@lemmy.world

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It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month.

He’s also the creator of https://fedidb.org btw

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[–] Nikokin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What year? I've run a docker synapse for a couple years with no issues (other than iOS client encryption bugs). I was surprised I could run it without a restart for 6months+

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 8 points 1 year ago

This year. I gave it a VPS with plenty of cores and memory too. It's like once I got it working it would work for awhile right, nbd. But then when I'd join a federated room over on matrix.org it would literally take days to add it. I even smoke tested it with their federation tester.

The lockout I'm describing is like an auth bug. The moment you sign in in a couple different places it has trouble unencrypting messages and even if you verify the other devices identity it will act like it's still unrecognized, and delete messages. It happened to my girlfriend, then my friend, then me. Twice in two separate attempts to use it daily. I tried using it as a complete iMessage replacement across all platforms so I'm saying I was using it heavily.

And yeah I used docker too. It's a neat concept it just falls apart at scale from what I've literally seen twice. Doesn't matter what client I used either.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

just yesterday element literally gave up on joining the nix matrix space after staying at joining for hours on my selfhosted dendrite instance

a week or so ago the exact same thing happened with the arch matrix channel