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colibri.social
Colibri is an open source chat platform built on the AT protocol for communities big and small.

Still a bit alpha, but looks promising. Several features seem to be waiting for atproto implementation.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    2·
    13 days ago

    Is matrix too difficult to develop or contribute to? Why do new chat apps keep popping up that do the same?

    • abc@suppo.fiOPEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      I haven’t tried it, but seems to be difficult enough that practically everyone uses the SDK. And also, before the SDK existed, practically nobody was successful in doing it.

      • Jade@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        The hardest bit is encryption, you can get a basic app or bot running trivially from scratch if you don’t care about that. People successfully wrote matrix apps for years before the Rust SDK existed, and there are plenty of other bits of the matrix ecosystem that don’t use it (mautrix/Beeper is mostly written in go!). The Rust SDK is nice to use and give a bunch of bonus features on top, so that’s why it’s popular.