| ▲ | davidcollantes 10 hours ago |
| Parley is a chat network with no centre. Every person (or team) runs a small instance for their own domain. Instances find each other through DNS and well-known identity documents, exchange signed messages over HTTPS, and present the whole federated network to ordinary IRC clients such as Lurker, Mango, mIRC, WeeChat, Textual, etc., without the need of any plugins. |
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| ▲ | someonebaggy 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This is an AI-generated summary of TFA? |
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| ▲ | BonerWiener 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's a copy paste of the readme intro. Don't know why it's left as a comment here | | |
| ▲ | xena 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Hacker News marketing skills tell people to leave a context comment on Hacker News. Don't complain about it too much, that is our way of figuring out who is lazy in an obvious way! | |
| ▲ | theandrewbailey 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | When someone makes a submission, the text field becomes a comment when the URL field is not empty. (but sometimes not?) It's a poorly designed form that should be redone. |
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| ▲ | altilunium 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| can any layman user simply use it without running their own instance? |
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| ▲ | davidcollantes 10 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, you will need to know someone running an instance to create an account for you. | | |
| ▲ | grim_io 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | So... no? :) | | |
| ▲ | NoboruWataya 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Presumably if the protocol becomes popular you will have public instances that anyone* can sign up to, the same way other federated services work now. (It's approximately as hard for a layman user to sign up to a Mastodon instance as it is to sign up for X. The fact that most layman users don't do that is a separate issue.) | |
| ▲ | jagged-chisel 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, you can try it without running your own instance. You will need to use someone else's instance. |
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| ▲ | davidcollantes 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | If you (top and child commentator) want to try without running your own, please send me an email: david dot collantes at gmail dot com. |
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