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submitted 1 month ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

Apparently there is an attempt for a federated alternative to Discord.

(I am not affiliated with Shoot in any way)

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[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

how is it different from XMPP?

[-] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 1 month ago

Why yet another chat protocol

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

So it's not Federated yet; just "Federated".

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 month ago

Is there some documentation / specification for the ActivityPub part of it? I’d like to see how these messages, channels and groups get exchanged from a programmer’s / protocol perspective.

[-] Teknevra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think that they are federated yet.

I found this under the "Panned" section

It's the link labeled "Federation with other fediverse software"

Although I'm not sure how Discord style it will be if there is federation between Shoot instances

[-] silverpill@mitra.social 3 points 1 month ago

It federates, I was told that it uses FEP-1b12. However, I haven't yet gotten past the actor discovery because there is always some bug that prevents further interactions 😅

[-] Teknevra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Apparently the author is incredibly busy with their job.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Uh, bummer. Thanks. Btw I think FEP-1b12 is the very abstract concept on how to address things to a group. I suppose we should have a working implementation of it in almost all current Fediverse software that deals with groups. The interesting part would be to specify the content that gets delivered like the chat messages this project is concerned with. Or how they're sorted, or how these groups are presented or the additional multimedia functionality.

[-] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks, yeah seems they in fact have the boilerplate code there to handle the basics of ActivityPub. But all the complicated and difficult stuff is missing. And that'd be the majority of the effort.

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