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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

330 points · 190 comments · davidcollantes

  1. Conlectus · · focus · HN ↗
    There’s a specific downside to LLM-based development that people can get neck deep in a new project without interfacing with the existing work in the field.

    In this case, this is basically a poorly specified implementation of half of XMPP. Of course, I half expect the LLM would have mentioned that at some point, but the repository does not.

    1. PunchyHamster · · focus · HN ↗
      XMPP is massively bloated protocol that is badly managed for last 2 decades
      1. edhelas · · focus · HN ↗
        And what are you suggesting as a non-bloated and better managed alternative? :)
        1. nextaccountic · · focus · HN ↗
          Maybe Matrix?
          1. someonebaggy · · focus · HN ↗
            Matrix turns every chatroom into a blockchain with a distributed consensus algorithm.

            IRC (real IRC) solves this by not solving it, and accepting that message order can differ between servers. If two operators kick each other on two different servers at the same time, usually both get kicked - the command is validated on the origin server and the rest of the network takes it as gospel, even if it doesn't make much sense in their own local state.

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