Mastodawn

A decentralized end-to-end encrypted chat app

https://lemmy.world/post/35299373

Is this some kind of actually new IM, or yet another fork of XMPP/Conversations?

I made this from scratch lol

How does it work under the hood? I mean how do you hook up and teconnect with people in a decentralised manner?

It works similar to Matrix which is federated

Any pointers on how that works :-D ?

Homeserver is essentially a distributed chat relay so clients post messages to rooms and the server relays those messages to its peers

And the server is where?

Official homeserver (phoenixim.site) is hosted on a VPS and all homeservers are interconnected via federation

Thanks.

So the VPS acts as a jump start or bootstrap and then it’s not used any more?

If so, then I must say nice job.

If not then it’s kind of a not so decentralised, right?

Yeah official homeserver also acts as a bootstrap server

Can discussions survive without it, after they have started?

yes

That is good to hear!

Thank you for your patience :-)