I need a self-hosted, decentralised chat I am in full control over. I need it to be e2e encrypted with TLS. I need it to be simple to stand up (with no BS ports I have to punch through my firewall). I need it to be easy to communicate with "anyone" that also uses it. And most importantly of all, I need a way to have "supervised accounts" (much like what we intend to do with Yarn.social too) so I can let me kids have accounts, but I am in full control over who is allowed to contact them and who they are allowed to contact.

(#dq5nmlq) ☝️ discussion I was having with @mutefall 😂

(#dq5nmlq) @~duriny @prologic wonder if just emails with pgp would cut it, but since you mentioned "chat" :shrug:

(#dq5nmlq) @novaburst That's Dela Chat but it has some shortcomings I can't really live with 😅

(#dq5nmlq) @~duriny I like it! This is initially where my _thinking_ was going too, but the more I _think_ about it and after having implemented _many_ of IndieWeb's open specs that are inherently also used in Yarn.social'd `yarnd` backend, I'm convinced that something like a simple `/inbox` that you can `PUT` or `POST` to is enough™ @mutefall @xuu @david and I all share and/or have played with keys.pub and there is a Go library that _can_ take care of the cryptography side of things for us.

(#dq5nmlq) ... Which is Saltpack, a (IHMO) modern form of GPG which I really quite like. The "protocol" itself though (as alluded to) I _think_ should adopt a more IndieWenb-style if that makes sense? Initially I _thought_ Twtxt feeds _could_ be used as a "transport", but I'm not so convinced of that anymore (Encrypted Feeds however, yes).

(#dq5nmlq) @mutefall Who wants to be involved in the design discussions then? I'm happy to setup an invite/calendar thingy, Just need to know who wants to attend and has enough "expertise" to contribute to this 😅

(#dq5nmlq) @mutefall Exactly! 👌

(#dq5nmlq) I've started a doc we can collaborate on: =>

(#dq5nmlq) > bookmarking this, let’s chat on it as group this weekend? @prologic So let's do this the old-fasioned way... (for lack of any "integrated" events thingy in Ysrn.social - coming soon™) Please send me an email if you're interested in having some meeting(s) (may be more than one) to help design this. I'll try to find a time that works for us all. Please include what your TZ is in your email as well please. Y'all know how to reach me 😅 Hint: View my Yarn profile 👌