@5225225 Yup (main reason for relays is actually mobile apps I suspect, since you don't want an explosion of connections for those).

The OAuth thing on top (alongside, presumably, scoped usernames@domains) is what makes it automatic/transparent (no manually configuring networks or registering yourself).

I'll still be mainly on Discord while this and other things cook but... watch what this guy's doing. He gets it!

@gianmarcogg03 Yup.

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)

What do you call this thing??

It's not a sponge, that's like bar shaped and not mesh. Loofah? But that's the natural one. Pouf? That's a cushion seat. Scrunchie? That's for hair. ?????