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Happy #GlobalSwitchDay (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 88 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I love Signal but it doesn't belong in that list. Dansup (creator of loops and pixelfed) is apparently working on "Sup" that will be a decentralized alternative to whatsapp.

[-] punkisundead@slrpnk.net 59 points 1 day ago

To me this person sounds like they have too many big projects at once. I wish them success tho

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 day ago

Yeah.. I'm bit afraid of "kbin Ernest Effect" (not sure what a proper term is) where personal issues pile up and the sole head developer just disappears.

Haven't followed dansup much but from what I understand he is much more open to pull requests and listening to the community, but time will tell. Right now I appreciate and love his effort, giving, and the impact on fediverse he is brining.

The kickstarter was a good idea.

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Given that I’ve waited 3 weeks to join his smaller instance of pixelfed.art, I can tell things are already piling up. I am hoping the kickstarter does help.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Damn. Yeah let's hope he can hire some help...

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago

XMPP is an established federated messaging app with encryption.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

There isn't much information about "Sup", but if I had to guess it could be that dansup is making sup app with XMPP(rotocol) as the messaging protocol.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Originally it was supposed to be ActivityPub based, but recently they posted something about it being for XMPP, Matrix and IRC as well 🤷‍♂️ Maybe they decided to fork Pidgin 😂

IMHO Sup. isn't going to happen. They will have their hands more than full with Pixelfed's new popularity and maybe Loops.

[-] chrislowles@lemm.ee 1 points 14 hours ago

Multi-protocol would be awesome, hopefully down the line it'll come back around to adding some basic AP integration.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

Oh! didn't know that, I thought activitypub can't be used for secure messaging. Lol really hope its XMPP!

Yeah I didn't take it that seriously when it was announced right now. Just hope pixelfed stays afloat amidst the user flood and hope he can publish loops as open source soon!