Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC by edhelas on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:12AM (#49878281)

And what are you suggesting as a non-bloated and better managed alternative? :)

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Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC by nextaccountic on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:54AM (#49879012)

Maybe Matrix?

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Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC by F3nd0 on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:34AM (#49879685)

Is Matrix really non-bloated? My impression has been that it works more reliably, but isn’t considered lean at all.

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Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC by TJSomething on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:59AM (#49880118)

I've heard that it's fairly unreliable and tends to have netsplits and desyncs pretty regularly, unlike XMPP.

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Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC by WD-42 on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:34PM (#49881496)

Synapse basically brought my vps to its knees with like 5 users. I would not call it light.

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Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC by someonebaggy on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:34PM (#49885944)

Matrix turns every chatroom into a blockchain with a distributed consensus algorithm.

IRC (real IRC) solves this by not solving it, and accepting that message order can differ between servers. If two operators kick each other on two different servers at the same time, usually both get kicked - the command is validated on the origin server and the rest of the network takes it as gospel, even if it doesn't make much sense in their own local state.

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