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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

330 points · 190 comments · davidcollantes

davidcollantes · 1790591454 · 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. someonebaggy · 1790597347 · focus · HN ↗
  This is an AI-generated summary of TFA?
  1. BonerWiener · 1790599799 · focus · HN ↗
    It's a copy paste of the readme intro. Don't know why it's left as a comment here
    theandrewbailey · 1790603096 · 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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