Hey everyone! privacytools.io is now on Matrix at #general:privacytools.io 😄
Feel free to join us or make an account at https://riot.privacytools.io/ if you don't have one already!
@jonah I'm not familiar with Riot. From the screenshots I see, it looks similar to Discord. Is that accurate?
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@pkntl yeah, it's kind of like a decentralized, federated Discord. It works somewhat similar to Mastodon except for Instant Messaging instead of standard social media posts. But it has some cool features like End-to-End Encrypted Chats as well.
I wouldn't say it's on the same feature level as Discord (yet) but it being self-hostable and federated makes it a better solution for us.
@jonah Self-hostable is a huge plus. Does federated mean that I can host my own server and be able to communicate with users on other servers?