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The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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URL seems to be wrong ... here's the correct URL

cross-posted from: https://merv.news/post/82405

It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month.

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

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[–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

That doesn't mean anything. For example, WhatsApp is "using the signal protocol" but is very much a walled garden.

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  • [–] [S] 15 points 3 years ago

    Sure ... it seems they were making a DM app for their platform and realised that it could be good as a standalone app.

    Part of the picture for them is that pixelfed has started to experiment with transferable IDs or authentication, so that you can signup to pixelfed straight with a pre-existing mastodon account. It seems that want the same for this app. So the idea, I'm guessing, would be that if you want to start DMing with someone you know over the fediverse, you can go straight to this app, sign in straight away with your fediverse credentials, get your usual alias and find your friends with their same aliases. If true, I'd imagine that'd make it easier to sort side-load the app with any particular instance.

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