How to Build your Own Real-time Chat App like WhatsApp?

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[–]dissent 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Check out meteorJS for realtime apps. It's amazing. >

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

Retarded. Never ever use anything other than xmpp or IRC. And don't ever use anything with flashy UI shit like Discord or (((Whatsapp))). Also refrain from using anything other than original Jabber for XMPP. You also need a IM client, Swift is best.

PS, avoid anything made with Electron

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Good to know.

What do you think of https://Matrix.org ?

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (9 children)

Its a pretty good idea, but the devs suck at infrastructure. Last year(or somewhere around that time), an anon from /g/ fucked up the servers pretty good. All encrypted chat history was lost, and 65% of users lost their account keys. I think they have improved it though, but I haven't really checked it since then. Also, their clients suck. One of the most used clients, riot.im, runs on Electron. As I had said in my earlier comment electron sucks. (For two reasons, one, its fucking slow and apps made with it are bloated as fuck. Why? Good question. Its a literal chrome container. Its a literal fucking browser core. AND IT ALSO USES A FUCKING NODE.JS SERVER. Two, it uses licensing practices that can be used by them to seize ownership of your own app.)

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

Thanks for the insights.

/u/Mnemonic might be interested in that if he didn't already know.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Just went to the guy's user page and Ctrl-F'ed "matrix". Found out about something called the fediverse, and holy shit, when I went to the website of "The Fediverse", peertube appears there, holy fucking shit, I use peertube nearly daily, and I didn't even know it was part of some fediverse, topkek. I don't get one thing though, how is federation decentralization? I mean, the point of a federation is that it centralizes the user's authorization point.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

You might also like some of this: /s/DecentralizeAllThings/wiki

Fediverse is more like a cooperative, IMO, sharing some resources and functions.

SaidIt federated with NotABug.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Don't get me wrong, but I want to end the internet. Ted Kaczynski style. IMO, the world was much better and much more happier until human beings gained the ability to freely make software and communicate using messages printed out on a screen. Unrestricted access to the internet produce creatures like this and the number of /v/irgins rise by thousands every year a new game is released.

[–]Mnemonic 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty much me, not ending the internet, but having it as a tool instead of a consciousness. Internet!=RL merely an extension, and on extensions alone one cannot live.

Social media can drop though :)

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ted was exceptionally ineffective. However, his insight and foresight were piercing and more far reaching than any of his actions. Perhaps he fucked up on purpose in order to get noticed in order to get his message out. If that was his end game, then maybe not all bad.

That creature has other issues, chemical imbalances, perhaps genetic disorders, social problems, and more. I pity tha fool.

Yes, tech addiction and mass social autism are problematic.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

He fucked up on purpose in order to get noticed in order to get his message out

Yes.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Is he a dev working on both Matrix and Fediverse? Damn

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Seems that way.

He's also mod of /s/Internet