Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:@martinligabue@tsukihi.me
ava@soon39c3[:ephone: LESB]:~:cursor_blinking::verifiedlesbian:@star@fed.amazonawaws.com
polyproto is an up-and-coming federation protocol with features like lossless account migration, resilience against loss of identity because of homeserver shutdown and tamper-resistant data exchange inherent to how it works under the hood.
The best part is that it doesn't re-invent the wheel, and builds on extremely well-known and widely used technologies such as X.509 (the technology powering all the SSL/TLS certificates—the thingies responsible for the padlock 🔒
symbol in your browser), regular ol' digital signature schemes, JSON, HTTP and Websockets.
If you are so inclined, feel free to find out more at https://polyproto.org or feel free to https://polyproto.org/docs/protocols/core (which I have tried my best to write in a way that doesn't induce a deep sleep on the reader).
The project wants to eventually yield a federated, self-hosted Discord alternative *usable by everyone, not just computer nerds*, and hosts it's source code at https://codeberg.org/polyphony . It is not currently in any usable or demoable state, sadly, but that is being worked on.