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Tox mentions (29)

• Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users

  I'm a big fan of Matrix, and run a small homeserver for my family in friends. But if you really want to explore the frontiers peer to peer seems really intriguing because you don't need any server. https://tox.chat/ just to name one. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS

  How does it compare to the more mature Tox[0]? 0. https://tox.chat/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Jitsi.org has started requiring authentication

  You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff. https://tox.chat/ https://jami.net/ I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• I'm designing a spy game and need an Anonymous Chat App that's easy to use.

  Still, Tox still around and kicking 😎. Source: about 1 year ago

• Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

  Jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was. Source: over 1 year ago

Prosody mentions (15)

• Lua: The Little Language That Could

  There's also the http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementation is in Erlang and they are equally praised, so that should tell something about Lua's versatility. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Lua: The Little Language That Could

  Lua on its own right can be fun too! If you are looking for a project to contribute to, there's for instance the Prosody XMPP server that's written in it, and contributes to the betterment of internet by promoting federated protocols. Source: about 1 year ago

• A History of Lua

  You can write largish standalone application in Lua and it is not always a poor choice - Prosody [1] first comes to mind. But qualities which make it a good embedded language make it less _attractive_ for other uses. Lua has very simple syntax and small stdlib which allows its implementation to be very small - you can add Lua to your application and not increase its size significantly. But when the size is not a... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?

  If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What is your recommended stack for real time chat?

  My choice, because it's the stack I know very well, would be Prosody ( https://prosody.im/ - I'm one of the devs) and a web client such as Converse.js ( https://conversejs.org/ ). XMPP is highly extensible, Prosody is highly modular, which make them a good foundation for building on top of. That said, the right stack is generally the one that matches your requirements, and (if this isn't primarily a learning... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago