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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

330 points · 190 comments · davidcollantes

  1. davidcollantes · · focus · HN ↗
    Parley is a chat network with no centre.

    Every person (or team) runs a small instance for their own domain. Instances find each other through DNS and well-known identity documents, exchange signed messages over HTTPS, and present the whole federated network to ordinary IRC clients such as Lurker, Mango, mIRC, WeeChat, Textual, etc., without the need of any plugins.

    1. altilunium · · focus · HN ↗
      can any layman user simply use it without running their own instance?
      1. davidcollantes · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes, you will need to know someone running an instance to create an account for you.
        1. grim_io · · focus · HN ↗
          So... no? :)
          1. jagged-chisel · · focus · HN ↗
            Yes, you can try it without running your own instance. You will need to use someone else's instance.
          2. NoboruWataya · · focus · HN ↗
            Presumably if the protocol becomes popular you will have public instances that anyone* can sign up to, the same way other federated services work now.

            (It's approximately as hard for a layman user to sign up to a Mastodon instance as it is to sign up for X. The fact that most layman users don't do that is a separate issue.)

        2. davidcollantes · · focus · HN ↗
          If you (top and child commentator) want to try without running your own, please send me an email: david dot collantes at gmail dot com.
    2. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
      This is an AI-generated summary of TFA?
      1. BonerWiener · · focus · HN ↗
        It's a copy paste of the readme intro. Don't know why it's left as a comment here
        1. xena · · focus · HN ↗
          Hacker News marketing skills tell people to leave a context comment on Hacker News. Don't complain about it too much, that is our way of figuring out who is lazy in an obvious way!
        2. theandrewbailey · · focus · HN ↗
          When someone makes a submission, the text field becomes a comment when the URL field is not empty. (but sometimes not?) It's a poorly designed form that should be redone.
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