Ariadne Conill 🐰
we don't need any more secure messaging tools, and we especially don't need insecure messaging tools that masquerade as secure ones (hi Matrix!)
what we need is a decentralized replacement for *insecure* chat.
ティージェーグレェIf only people hadn't maybe solved such problems an already awfully long time ago and released their source?
(because it was so long ago www.silcnet.org now seems to be down:
Or y'know there's https://github.com/shazow/ssh-chat
But maybe users don't want source code?
Maybe they to install Apps in corporate owned walled gardens and not think about how computers work and let the "powers that be" do a rug pull like Charlie Brown?
I used to "fight for the users", but they seem to just want to be used these days.
I don't know why the notion of users leveling up seems to have died off, but abusive dynamics are unequivocally at play and it seems to me that significant SysOps and decent devs are burnt out because people with vested monied interests aren't playing nicely.
Or, maybe you don't just want "distributed" end-to-end encrypted chat, but peer-to-peer end-to-end encrypted chat?
Attempts at that were made too.
Here's slides from a 2005 presentation at @recon on CUTLASS which also, IIRC, provided source code:
https://recon.cx/2005/recon2005/papers/Todd_MacDermid/CUTLASS-Recon-2005.pdf
