Basically yes. Matrix got thrown around by @rhymes when this was first brought up, and I'd really like to entertain all sorts of ideas here.
Flimsy forem-by-forem inboxes which may or may not have E2E encryption at some point is not necessarily the ideal here. A single Forem can do a good job of managing permissions, i.e. we follow each other, you should be able to message me... Messaging already has so much sprawl, if this can be an optional decentralized connective element of the Forem ecosystem, that would be ideal.
I am an Engineering Physics graduate from IIT Guwahati, but merely not restricted to Physics itself. In the past few years, I involved in many Cybersecurity blogging and now on Open-source.
Mastodon does this exceptionally. I'm not sure how this can be implemented in a Ruby on Rails app, but the way two individually hosted Mastodon communicates can be a good fit for Forem.
It is more like; if you have created an account in one Mastodon instance, there is no need for you to create a new mastodon account. You can use your existing account to signup for another Mastodon server. So, what is the advantage of this?
Let's assume we both are following each other in dev.to and also used our dev.to account to create a Forem account (both of us) => It implicitly means we are also following each other in Forem.dev
I am an Engineering Physics graduate from IIT Guwahati, but merely not restricted to Physics itself. In the past few years, I involved in many Cybersecurity blogging and now on Open-source.
I see, I'm not aware of those minute facts; but anyways Mastodon is the only social media service I can come up with, which might come near to what Forem is aspiring to introduce via Forem connect.
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Basically yes. Matrix got thrown around by @rhymes when this was first brought up, and I'd really like to entertain all sorts of ideas here.
Flimsy forem-by-forem inboxes which may or may not have E2E encryption at some point is not necessarily the ideal here. A single Forem can do a good job of managing permissions, i.e. we follow each other, you should be able to message me... Messaging already has so much sprawl, if this can be an optional decentralized connective element of the Forem ecosystem, that would be ideal.
Mastodon does this exceptionally. I'm not sure how this can be implemented in a Ruby on Rails app, but the way two individually hosted Mastodon communicates can be a good fit for Forem.
It is more like; if you have created an account in one Mastodon instance, there is no need for you to create a new mastodon account. You can use your existing account to signup for another Mastodon server. So, what is the advantage of this?
Let's assume we both are following each other in dev.to and also used our dev.to account to create a Forem account (both of us) => It implicitly means we are also following each other in Forem.dev
Mastodon is a RoR app and open-source, so that could definitely serve as inspiration. 🙂
github.com/mastodon/mastodon
That said, Mastodon is about federating ActivityPub content which is not necessarily a good fit for realt-time chat.
I see, I'm not aware of those minute facts; but anyways Mastodon is the only social media service I can come up with, which might come near to what Forem is aspiring to introduce via Forem connect.