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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
Migration off telegram, and onto Quorum, for @ro and my daily collaboration has started in earnest. With the implementation of images, we now have the key feature parity points we needed. The flex @cassie is pulling here is so profoundly inspiring. This is what years of working on an underlying architecture, and getting hard shit right, looks like. Pulling staggeringly good performance numbers out on the early scaling atop Q - it looks like @cassie did this new messenger client in the last month, but really this is landing years of preparatory work to be able to make rock solid, material software artefacts of this calibre this quickly. "slowly, then quickly" https://www.quorummessenger.com/
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Danica Swanson
@danicaswanson
Appreciate your summary as I've been eyeing Quorum (thanks to your casts!) and wondering if it would be a good option for moving our group chat out of Warpcast DCs. If you're leaving TG and moving there, I'm even more tempted. Do you know if signups are open yet, or is it only a limited group of beta testers right now? Didn't see that info in the FAQ.
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
(AFAIK) It's completely open and permissionless by design. The operating-system passkeys (the emerging standard for handling private-keys, at the operation-system level), that @cassie is using as the auth mechanism, are utterly permissionless and local-first, and there is no centralisation (entrapment) possibility “because Quilibrium”. The passkeys are potentially a little rough still, but that’s because of the transition the industry (Apple, Microsoft, et al. at the OS level) is still in progress…but one speculative take (less speculative by the month) is that passkeys ARE the way out of the quagmire of “genpop-users managing their own private-keys” problem. fidoalliance.org/passkeys/
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Phil Cockfield
@pjc
I can't speak for @cassie, but www.quorummessenger.com is a public URL, so I don't think she's limiting usage to "close-ins" (she may just not be shouting about it too widely as she stands all of this up, and ensures the scaling of the network holds up.) All the caveat is it's in early beta, and she's moving fast on both feature build-out and bug fixes, along with the astonishing feat of the underlying Q network running at scale, which powers this thing with the enviable security/privacy properties that are so sought after. (PS: I have not deeper insider knowledge of this, other than I’ve had a very keen eye on what Quilibrium is and what it’s going to do as it's been building out in public…and of course incredible respect for Cassie’s intellect and "maker chops" in pulling this technical feat off ...over the “long-game”).
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