It's the year of dogfooding and Spritely has been using its own tech *every day* this year with a project called Pumpkin Chat https://codeberg.org/spritely/pumpkin-chat/
Alas, it's what's called "dogfood". Not fit for human consumption. But it's possible to use this tech every day, and we are. We're working on getting it out to others too.
We also recently put out a blogpost and demo of a chat system that *nobody* centrally hosts called "Brassica Chat" https://spritely.institute/news/composing-capability-security-and-conflict-free-replicated-data-types.html
Again, it's a demo, but you can try on it on the page. It combines capability security with cool concepts called CRDTs.
But more importantly, it's a step towards secure communication for a hostile world.
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