Okay so I finally got around to reading the Fluxer dev's (long!) blog post and... his take on federation is literally the exact same thing I independently suggested.
10/10 this guy knows what he's doing. This is going to work.
(Also fully agree with his "why not E2EE for messaging" section)
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://vt.social/users/lina/statuses/116097856103360777 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116097856103360777
Because I've been negative quite a bit about the potential Discord replacements/the way "open web" people tend to try and develop novice-facing applications - reading this guy's post, I actually think his head's screwed on about right.
No FOSS fallacy smells here and a commendable focus on the desired end user experience over purism, even while discussing the development process. Top marks, no notes.
The blog: https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-chat-app/
