The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse

While I doubt I could get my friends and family on yet ANOTHER messaging app in the year of our lord 2023.

Sup. Is a fucking brilliant name.

I just saw this on Mastodon and was about to post it here. 😄

Pretty cool idea. Though I'm not looking forward to trying to convince my friends to switch to yet another new platform. 😂

This is good.

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I've been unhappy with the direction Signal has taken in recent months and Matrix always felt like it was trying to do too many things at once.

Happy to see something that would integrate directly into Fediverse platforms as it will greatly enhance interplatform communication.

Like a better FB messager.

Makes more sense as matrix client than ActivityPub

this rocks actually. I've kinda wanted this for a while

I’m not leaving Signal until someone implements keeping data at rest encrypted on both ends and requires multi factor unlock (bio+pin is my choice).

So sick of E2E clients that leave the data in plaintext on the devices and then back it up in plaintext to the cloud.

Your link, https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110836811082599292%20sup.%20is%20an%20open%20source%20encrypted%20fediverse%20instant%20messenger,%20similar%20to%20whatsapp,%20made%20by%20pixelfed.%20%20The%20beta%20will%20be%20launching%20later%20this%20month,%20and%20btw%20most%20fediverse%20accounts%20will%20work,%20not%20just%20Pixelfed%20%F0%9F%98%89 is broken. I think you accidentally copied the body text as well. Cleaning up the link results in https://mastodon.social/@dansup/110836811082599292, which works fine.

Desktop fscking client, please. Not electron based would be nice, yes? QT is good.

ICQ-style or old Skype-style user directory would be wonderful too. VoIP is not something I'd care about, file transfers are.

This is cool.

I wonder, what 'works with the fediverse ' could mean for a messenger and what could be features not already implemented by different messengers, like elements or the very signal.

I'm not a fan of Pixelfed, or instaclones. But the idea of a messenger e2ee that works with all the fedi is such a awesome idea.

Great news that it will work across the fediverse. I'd love to try pixelfed for example, but its got too much of a walled garden thing going on since nobody I know uses it.

so this is basically fb messenger but it works with twitter, YouTube and reddit (their federated alternatives mastodon peertube lemmy) and is e2ee!

super cool!

How is this different than something like Matrix? I'm probably just not understanding something...

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1. Will it support MLS? (I still don't quite know the relationship between Double Ratchet and MLS)

2. Why not Matrix?

I want this at the ActivityPub level, for direct/group messaging at least.

AP isn't really meant for real-time communication

Ok but why

I'm very excited for this too. The fact that the majority of the comments are not "ewww who whants ANOTHER chat client" really shows how much demand there is for something like that in this crowded space.

I don't think this could convince the rest of the family to switch off Line, but I'm pulling for it.

Nice🔥

That's awesome

I am excited for this!

This sounds fascinating!!

Thanks you Daniel superman supernault @dansup@mastodon.social. @dansup@dansup@mastodon.social

Another messenger = another target for all who hate it. This is another way - let's see them target that channel.

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why not use Signal if you want encrypted messages?

He’s also the creator of https://fedidb.org btw

I don't get it. It's a blank page. Is there some obsolete tech I need to re-enable?

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This seems highly sexual