Daniel Supernault (@dansup@mastodon.social)
mastodon.social
Attached: 1 image sup. is an open source encrypted fediverse instant messenger, similar to whatsapp, made by pixelfed. The beta will be launching later this month, and btw most fediverse accounts will work, not just Pixelfed 😉

URL seems to be wrong … here’s the correct URL

cross-posted from: https://merv.news/post/82405

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

  • maegul (he/they)OPEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Dunno TBH. It is apparently using the signal protocol, so there’s that, and it’s being spun out of pixelfed’s own IM/DM feature, which is generally all over the place across the fediverse, so it all kinda makes sense I guess.

    • min_fapper@iusearchlinux.fyi
      62·
      1 year ago

      That doesn’t mean anything. For example, WhatsApp is “using the signal protocol” but is very much a walled garden.

      • maegul (he/they)OPEnglish
        15·
        1 year ago

        Sure … it seems they were making a DM app for their platform and realised that it could be good as a standalone app.

        Part of the picture for them is that pixelfed has started to experiment with transferable IDs or authentication, so that you can signup to pixelfed straight with a pre-existing mastodon account. It seems that want the same for this app. So the idea, I’m guessing, would be that if you want to start DMing with someone you know over the fediverse, you can go straight to this app, sign in straight away with your fediverse credentials, get your usual alias and find your friends with their same aliases. If true, I’d imagine that’d make it easier to sort side-load the app with any particular instance.