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Looks like Instagram wants some of Discord's market. (htxt.co.za)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Instagram appears to be developing a feature called Community Chats.
  • These are chats in which up to 250 users can participate.
  • The feature is said to be an internal tool and Instagram has no plans to roll it out to the public just yet.
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  1. File size limits on the default instance are 20mb.

But it's configurable right? Should be looking through configurations anyway.

  1. Its not federated.

I'd argue that not everything needs to be federated. Some things would definitely benefit from federation, but I'm not entirely sure that this is one of them.

  1. It's not encrypted.

This IS a bit of a major negative. But point 2 and point 3 seems to be in conflict. I'm definitely not an expert, and don't pretend to be. But to my limited, layman's, knowledge wouldn't being federated and encrypted not really work out? What would be the point in encrypting all communication between the server instance and client, to then federate it out to other servers?

I'm not trying to be contrarian here, I'm really asking, is that something that would:

  1. Work.
  2. Makes sense to do

Or is the lack of encryption a security risk for server operators? I'm not getting the point, obviously. And I'd like to know what your thinking on this is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My intention was not to hate on it, I think it's a great project, but just to make people aware of considerations.

But it's configurable right?

On your self-hosted instance? Sure. On the default instance? No.

I'd argue that not everything needs to be federated.

I agree, but it is nice to have.

wouldn't being federated and encrypted not really work out?

No, lots of platforms that are both.

What would be the point in encrypting all communication between the server instance and client, to then federate it out to other servers?

So you could communicate with people on other servers securely?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, I should have been clear, I by no means thought you were hating on it!
I'm literally just hearing about Revolt now. And I've had a bad day so far, that obviously came through in my previous comment. I'm sorry, rereading my last comment, it's a bit belligerent.
Thanks for taking the time to explain like I'm 5 and throwing a tantrum. 🤦 Sorry again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

No worries.