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shazow
Federation
Would be fun to setup message relaying between ssh-chat instances (not unlike what IRC federation tried to do, but probably closer to Matrix's approach). If #151 is a thing, federation could be on a per-room basis.
The idea here is that people can create "trusted" micro-groups. E.g. I have a digital ocean node with a whitelist of pubkeys of all my friends, no one else can access it. I can take my "trusted group" and connect it to your "trusted group" without contaminating each other (in an isolated room that both groups can access).
note that the irc folks are working on a major overhaul and extension of the protocol, including authentication, backlogs and federation. your input would be very welcome here:
http://ircv3.net/
it seems to me that reinventing the federation wheel again here would be a waste of time, to say the least. ;)
@anarcat ssh-chat is all about reinventing wheels, but I'm very aware of the IRC protocol (I've even implemented my own IRC server but haven't gotten around to v3 extensions yet). Thanks. :)
Recently, some people put together a relay bot to connect multiple ssh-chat services: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshout/
It's kinda neat, but can get noisy sometimes. (The endpoint is ssh://beijing.rivoreo.tk:6666)
Some issues that we should consider resolving natively:
- Federation opt-in (if we end up having rooms/channels, maybe on a per-room/channel level)
- A more native display of the federated messages perhaps? Maybe we need an IRC-style federated message type which renders as
[email protected]. - A federation-aware tab-complete?
Neat tricks/side effects:
- Users can /ignore the federation bot which works nicely on a per-user basis (but maybe not a great default)
- You can run commands on the federation bot over PM
- Federation allows us to do low-latency SSH edge nodes, too!
Recently, some people put together a relay bot to connect multiple ssh-chat services: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sshout/
Well, SSHOUT is another implementation of SSH chatroom; the relay program itself is available at https://gist.github.com/Low-power/94d2b33fc3350ef5945489b63a74651f
