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colibri.social
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for communities big and small.

Still a bit alpha, but looks promising. Several features seem to be waiting for atproto implementation.

  • SW42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I wonder how much of it is vibe coded and when will it lose updates after being released…

    • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      It has a single committer and there are two commits with Claude as co-author, so I would suggest it’s probably about as you’d expect.

  • Ugurcan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    HEY HEY HEY, don’t get me wrong now but I’m seeing dozens of Discord-like apps over the past year and can’t understand one thing about them, which is WE ALREADY HAVE THE CHAT PART SINCE FUCKING 1988, it’s called IRC, it’s lightweight, not bloated, works everywhere, extendible and still maintained.

    Discord (and Slack) are proprietary IRC forks themselves and adds almost NOTHING to that equation.

    It’s the voice/video call part that Discord solved an none of these forks attempting to tackle that part.

      • krisbalintona@feddit.onlineEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        I wouldn’t call it a “solved” problem… I don’t use Fluxer but from what I read in online discussions it’s something that’s currently a pain point since they’re currently trying to overhaul the system

  • flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.ukEnglish
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    14 days ago

    AT Proto is a terrible base for a chat app. There’s a reason Bluesky’s DMs aren’t stored in your PDS. Hell, even your bookmarks (which are stored in your PDS) are off protocol.

    • bretton.dev@coves.social
      1·
      14 days ago

      Colibri to my knowledge is basically doing public chats until private spaces are in a better spot then doing private spaces for private groups.

      Roomy.space is another one of these who built their own private spaces on atproto and would be worth checking out.

      Also Atproto isn’t inherently a bad place for this since it can be a hybrid system of on or off protocol, or using their upcoming permissioned data spaces for private data.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    1·
    15 days ago

    Is matrix too difficult to develop or contribute to? Why do new chat apps keep popping up that do the same?

    • abc@suppo.fiOPEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      I haven’t tried it, but seems to be difficult enough that practically everyone uses the SDK. And also, before the SDK existed, practically nobody was successful in doing it.

      • Jade@programming.devEnglish
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        14 days ago

        The hardest bit is encryption, you can get a basic app or bot running trivially from scratch if you don’t care about that. People successfully wrote matrix apps for years before the Rust SDK existed, and there are plenty of other bits of the matrix ecosystem that don’t use it (mautrix/Beeper is mostly written in go!). The Rust SDK is nice to use and give a bunch of bonus features on top, so that’s why it’s popular.