Harmony is an #ActivityPub powered Discord and Matrix alternative that mixes chatrooms with social networking. It's amazing.
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@deadsuperhero Please ask them why they edited their PR history to remove mentions of Claude Code:
@deadsuperhero Please ask why the project says "Made by people" on their site while using Claude code. And also ask to declare an AI usage policy.
@deadsuperhero Hi, Sean! How does this compare to Stoat?
@deadsuperhero Basing it on AP rather than Matrix is certainly a choice. Looks like an interesting project!
@max@toet.dnzm.nl Matrix is notoriously difficult to implement. Props to anyone that's building better Matrix servers and Matrix clients, because it's painful.
I actually like the idea of using ActivityPub for instant messaging and chat. It's been explored a fair bit in the past, but not to this extent. It also includes a social feed and regular Fediverse posting!
@deadsuperhero Doing it through ActivityPub sounds insane haha, I'm really curious how they went about it
@NIGHTEN@hi.nighten.fr The project actually has some really good docs on the custom ActivityPub extensions that were made.
By using AI generation looks like.
@smallcircles@social.coop @NIGHTEN@hi.nighten.fr According to the dev, they've been building it since 2024. They said they use AI art as a placeholder, but would love to get to a point where they can pay Fedi artists to replace the assets.
In my assessment I looked at the commits, no. of commits per day, lines of code changed per commit, and the fact that each commit contains a full documentation of the change.
@deadsuperhero Interesting. Just cam across https://kallisti.chat/ an hour ago. Looks similar? Maybe different back-ends for voice/video? (Haven't looked)
@prutser @deadsuperhero LOL at the names of both software projects. 🤭
Both projects try to be alternatives to Discord.
«harmony» is just the opposite of verbatim «discord».
«kallisti» is a (AFAICT slightly wrong) transliteration or transcription of «τῇ καλλίστῃ» (transliterated: tē(i) kallistē(i), "for/to the most beautiful"), the inscription on the Apple of Discord in Greek mythology, and is commonly used in Discordian/Erisian texts, such as the Principia Discordia.
@prutser@mastodon.bsd.cafe They seem to just have similar UIs. Kallisti looks like it's a frontend for Mumble, whereas Harmony is a full-fledged client and server setup with ActivityPub federation. Harmony also features a microblogging component.
@deadsuperhero Ah, super. Then I'll look into Harmony. One day 😊 . #todolist
We're going to be doing a deep-dive later this month, but you can check out the project here: mony.lol/
@deadsuperhero Why do you have 0 followers? This looks really useful. Followed you!
@kingofbitchain@mstdn.sparkdream.io Haha, thanks! Follower count doesn't always synchronize well between instances and software, I think you'll find I have a fair bit more than zero if you view my profile over here.
@deadsuperhero did you alslo looked at https://movim.eu/ @movim
It's discord with xmpp
Movim – Responsive web-based cross-platform XMPP client