👋 Hey y’all Yarn.social and Twtxt users out there 🙇♂️ One of our sister projects we recently begun work on a few months ago this year (2022) is called Salty IM – Some of you may have heard of it, seen it, even played with it. If you haven’t do check it out! 🙏
I have written up an NL Net Funding Submission Proposal which you can find here (you will need to sign-in with either Github or your Gita login via git.mills.io).
I would appreciate any feedback, comments, criticisms as I would like to submit this before the Deadline of 1st Oct 2022. I an hopeful we can get a small funding amount to primarily build a great Mobile App experience for Salty Chat (the reference client) and place a number of (free) brokers around the globe for folks to use if they so wish 👌
Sorry fixed permissions on that doc: https://docs.mills.io/s/s5c6sTSwH
I don’t fully understand Hedgedoc’s permission model sometimes 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net It’s late over here, I’ll try to take a look in the week but I briefly checked it since criptography has been a hobby interest for me.
That said, I think https://getsession.org or Jami, are more related to Salty than Signal.
@eaplmx@twtxt.net Not really. Aession is also centralized – They just route through a few distributed nodes in a network to dither obfuscate the traffic 😆
Just a friendly reminder that I probably want to submit this soon (tomorrow), in the next 24-48 hours. It’s always gone through a few revisions. 🙏
@prologic@twtxt.net I can’t disagree, although if you read both proposals, they have some similarities on goals, use of libraries, anonymity and such. Anyways my bet is on all of you 😀
@eaplmx@twtxt.net Thanks bud 🤗
I’ve read the paper from Session and even played with it in the past 👌 I just wanted to point out something though, right there, not very far down:
Session utilises the decentralised Oxen Service Node Network to store
and route messages. This means that unlike P2P messaging applications
you can message Session users when they are offline.
This network consists of community operated nodes which are stationed
all over the world. Service nodes are organised into collections of small
co-operative groups called swarms. Swarms offer additional redundancy
and message delivery guarantees even if some service nodes become
unreachable. By using this network, Session doesn’t have a central point
of failure, and Session’s creators have no capacity to collect or store
personal information about people using the app.