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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

330 points · 190 comments · davidcollantes

singpolyma3 · 1790598299 · focus · HN ↗
So rooms are "global" between whatever hosts your host happens to know about? So it's one giant netsplit party forever and only your server admin can ban someone?
1. davidcollantes · 1790598955 · focus · HN ↗
  Bans are per server (for what I have seeing). Federated rooms continue to exist if a server drops off, as no server "owns" them.
  1. esseph · 1790600403 · focus · HN ↗
    > Federated rooms continue to exist if a server drops off
    That doesn't answer the question.
    How are you resolving things like... user name collisions when the servers reconnect?
    pferde · 1790603959 · focus · HN ↗
    This has been an issue for as long as IRC itself has existed. There are solutions to resolve such "netsplits" and "netjoins", but they all rely on the servers in the network being trusted and not malicious.
    With Parley, where anyone can bring their own instance, and they are not guaranteed to not to be malicious, that could be an interesting issue to solve.
    _flux · 1790681879 · focus · HN ↗
    I believe Matrix does solve this, at least to an extent.

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