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👋 Calling all decentralised enthusiasts that still remembers and use IRC 😎

Please come join us in a new, truely, decentralised IRC-based chat experience by standing up your own Parley instance on your own domain (bring your own OIDC auth or use the built-in).

Pick your favourite IRCv3-compatible client (there's heaps out there!).

And peer with either me james@mills.io or Admin -> Peers -> Add mills.io or @david via david@ratha.us or simply ratha.us (in Admin -> Peers -> Add).

See you online! 🤞 #decentralised #irc #chat

@david I just wanted some cheap USB disks to test with, nothing fancy LOL, serves me right 😂

And by design 😅

I never thought I'd ever get scammed by an Amazon counterfeit product in my life 🤦‍♂️ I suppose with all the many 10's of thousands of items sold there every day (and all the junk) I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. I just tested a couple of USB Flash drives that were being sold as 512G, but were in fact only internally 8G, you write past the 8G and try to read those bytes back and you get a whole pile of zero's back 🤣

@itsericwoodward you do not have to use Docker btw 🤗

@itsericwoodward Then by all means, follow the instructions at https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley and setup your own instance on your own domain. It's partly inspired by Twtxt/Yarn.social and Salty.im -- in at least the way teh DNS discovery and WKID works. Once your instance is up and running and you've gone through the /setup and created yourself an account (or seti it up with an appropraite ODIC IDP) try something like /msg james@mills.io Hey! at which point you should automatically start peering with my instance. You should then be able to /join <a href="?search=lobby1" class="tag">#lobby1</a> (a globally federated channel already across 2 instances so far). 🤞

@itsericwoodward Not really no 🤣 Did you want to join us and setup your own instance and join the growing aprty? It's turning out to be quie neat actually 😅

I have (finally) built a fully e2e working purely decentralised and federated IRC-compatible chat server. It is currently a PoC, but it's already working quite well. It's inspired partly by the work we did with Salty Chat in terms of Discovery and Federation. Some screenshots of a normal IRC client irssi showing off how it works in a local e2e setup:

For the curious, this is fully documented with roleplay Alice/Bob. I was going to test this with @david but we both got busy, but now I'm on holidays from work for a month so 🤷‍♂️ 🤣

Does anyone have time this weekend to manually test and validate and prove out this spec I'm calling Gitxt? A Twtxt-inspired purely decentralised Git federation/forge? 🤔 Hit me up! You need only git, curl and a web server of some kind.

@david Oh I did 😅

@movq It's becoming a bit ludicrous to be frankly honest. I'm not sure I can continue to justify these kinds of prices. But at the same time, I'll probably stick with Apple regardless, even if I hate their exorbitant prices, and just buy their low-end stuff 🤦‍♂️ It is fucking crazy when you consider what these things are actually made for over in China or wherever they're manufactured.

I am not fucking paying ~3.5 grand for a fucking phone, geez christ, kill me now 🤦‍♂️

Oh no, sorry I was wrong! That was the fucking US price 🤣

This is the Australian (AUD) price:

From A$3,499.00 or A$145.79/mo.

Fuck me dead 😵

iPhone Duo - Apple Sorry Apple™, I'm really finding it quite hard to justify spending thousands of dollar on your products!

From $1999 or $83.29/mo. for 24 mo.*

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ When it was just me and my wife, maybe, fine, okay. But now I have two young children that also want the same shit™ as we do. This starts becoming a nearly ~$8k expensve just for some fucking whoop-ti-do-da foldable iPhone with a bigger screen.

Who cares? 🤔 I want my ~A$800 iPhone back that fits in my hand. #Apple #Rants #Expensive #Crap

@itsericwoodward Don't worry, we'll tell you rather loudly if your client is misbehaving or your feed is down 🤣

@movq This is actually pretty cool! I like this one! ☝️

@itsericwoodward Ahh it gets like tha sometimes 😅 the Twixt ecosystem is on purpose, deliberately designed to be very slow at times 🤣

⚠️ For anyone that signs up on Yarn.social's multi-user twtd multi-tenant platform I'm runnign on twtpub.com -- Be warned. I will delete your account if you create it for the soles purposes of link squatting, spam, link harvesting, seo marketing, or any other useless fucktarrd crap.

To the spammers and would-be assholes of the world: You have been wanred. Don't abuse my generosity.

it's all I ask

@david No worries 😌

@david ping me on IRC when you have a couple of spare hours 👌

@david I think to @movq 's point, we should probably just test teh specification itself no? 🤔

@GabesArcade I plan to oj ly projects 😅

@movq I kind of do need a couple of folk to test things with 👌-- But i need to do some more testing myself first 😅

By industry i assume you both mean IT?

What's going on in your neck of the woods (planet) 🧐

@GabesArcade How about you? 🤔

@GabesArcade Doing okay 👌 Looking forward to my month off!

@movq Ahh, no you can. Much like what we've built here with Twtxt / Yarn. I'm building a spec, clients can implement the spec, or you can ya know, just curl and git your way through. I'll link the spec soon™, just need to keep refining and testing and make sure this actually works properly 😅

gitxt is a purely decentralised git forge. There is no federation protocol, no instance-to-instance API, no accounts on other people’s servers. Each forge instance is fully independent; collaboration is an act of publishing and reading plain text files over HTTP

@fossham I honestly think the most unique and interesting thing about doing this at all is that it is in fact inspired directly by Twtxt / Yarn.social itself -- That is to say, I am confident I can do this in such a way as to be "truly decentralised", no inter-networking like ActivityPub, no centraised forges like Github or Codeberg. You run your instance, I run mine, we just are able to collaborate. Think exchanging patches over Email, just without all the hard-to-learn ways to do that (enough though it's not hard for some of us, but still).

@movq So the way this works in my design/prototype is this. You fork my repo in the app, it clones it to your own forge, follows my instance and it's repo for updates and ping my instance to indicate "you've forked me". Then when you publish changes, I can see them by pulling your instance's feed. It all works on the same plain text principles of Tstxt itself. The feeds are "pull"-based with push-based "pings" on things like "someone forked your repo", "a new issue has been raised against your repo", etc.

@movq What if I told you there were in fact zero account(s) at all? And that you signed into your own instance or a multi-user instance with your own SSH key? 🔑 Hmmm? 🧐

@movq In the meantime tell me all your "wishes" and things you wish/want a good decent "pure" decentralised Git forge should do 😅

@movq Good 😊

I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I'm actually quite confident that y'all will quite like it, but I won't post links yet until I'm quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

Stay tuned 🤞 It'll be like no other Git forge you've ever seen! 🤣 Actually, it's already more like cgit than anything with plain text feeds that power it's "pure decentralization" as you can no doubt imagine 😅 #twtxt #git #forge

@Sumomo All good 👍

@movq I am seriously rethinking and re-contemplating building a new Git forge of some description that avoids all of these stupid problems that we're now seeing in the wild

@Sumomo if you're looking for a great static site generator/publishing tool by the way have a look at my project ZS

@thecanine some people in this world are just giant douche bags and complete sociopaths 🤯

@movq Maybe I'm using the wrong term, ya know, silos and bubbles and all that 😅

@movq That depends. What do you mean by "The Internet"? 🤔 If you mean a bunch of large centralised sites where a majority of the world's Internet traffic goes, then yeah, it's boring as bat shit™ -- Largely because of the concept (I think) of "confirmation bias".

@Sumomo You should report the bug and hopefully get it fixed 🤞

@Sumomo Oh this is cool! 😎 It supports all v2 specs, nice! 👍

@Sumomo I haven't heard of that client before? 🤔 Got a link to it? screenshtos? Should I add it to the Listed Clients? 🤔

@Sumomo Ahh if you're using the 'ol twtxt client from buckket, that thing isn't really maintained anymore. I recommend you check out one of the clients listed on https://twtxt.dev or even just https://twtxt.app

@Sumomo What client are you using btw? 🤔 Does it support threads, and other v2 specs? 🤔

@Sumomo Hello 👋

Similar here 🥳 9 days then i'm off for 3 weeks. but really 20 working days!

@fossham I hope you enjoy it 😅 You might want to update your Avatar and Description at some point in your settings 👌