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Colibri chat system (Discord-like thing based on ATProto) (colibri.social)
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Still a bit alpha, but looks promising. Several features seem to be waiting for atproto implementation.

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[–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

I'm not a developer, so I don't know the actual effort involves, but it seems to me like making a new one is like reinventing the wheel. Matrix probably has solved many problems that this new things still has to run into.

What's an SDK? I looked it up but can't really understand the techno lingo on wikipedia. It's a "kit" (whatever that means) that allows developing a platform specific app? Matrix isn't another OS like Linux, so I'm confused.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk

    SDK is a library layer that hides the complexity of a thing inside an easier facade. It's exactly the right thing to do when the thing is a complicated one, but it also hints towards ... you know, the thing being complicated.

    We haven't quite figured out whether a chat network needs to be as complicated as Matrix is under the hood. Could be that it does: federation, E2EE and the overall design of Matrix (it being a log propagator instead of a more traditional message passing system) increase the technical challenge by a lot, but then again, none of the three are essential (although undeniably useful in certain cases) for a chat network.

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