Activity Pub, or Matrix protocol federation support for self-hosters?

[marek-lach]

It'd fit perfectly with Revolt to implement the ActivityPub protocol, or perhaps the Matrix protocol, so that when people self-host it, they can federate (i.e. see each-other) across the various servers, for example chatting in the form of @[email protected] writing to a @[email protected] .

That would be cool.

[oleggtro]

somewhat related to #103

[Zomatree]

We dont plan on adding federation, see here for the reasons why https://developers.revolt.chat/faq/federation

[oleggtro]

makes sense i guess

[minkanjin]

I'm thinking actually replacing the Revolt protocols with Matrix protocols. That would fix the problem of not enough manpower. You would no longer have to maintain your own protocol, since most of the work would be done by the Matrix people (you just add the Revolt bits).

But I get why this is not an easy task and I'm not sure if Matrix solved the privacy problems.

[minkanjin]

Maybe there is another protocol that has most of the features that Revolt needs, e.g. ActivityPub or Mattermost. I guess some research would be needed.

[erlend-sh]

There’s an emerging protocol that Revolt folks may wanna take a closer look at: Polyproto. It’s modeled after Discord, so it should be a lot easier to implement than the likes of Matrix or ActivityPub.

I’ve written about why I think federation is important in the context of chat applications here (in which ‘Matrix’ could easily be substituted for ‘Polyproto’):

• https://blog.commune.sh/beyond-discord/
• https://blog.commune.sh/federated-webrings/
• https://blog.erlend.sh/weird-netizens