On: Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

[pferde]

This has been an issue for as long as IRC itself has existed. There are solutions to resolve such "netsplits" and "netjoins", but they all rely on the servers in the network being trusted and not malicious.

With Parley, where anyone can bring their own instance, and they are not guaranteed to not to be malicious, that could be an interesting issue to solve.

[wang_li → pferde]

CAP theorem suggests it is not solvable.

[someonebaggy → wang_li]

This like most federated systems is AP. Cut a federation link and you create two or more different state views.

[pferde → someonebaggy]

From the screenshot on the project website, it seems "@serv.er" is part of any remote nickname, so I'm assuming the nicks are in per-server namespaces, which prevents any nick collisions.

Although it must wreak havoc on many IRC clients, since the @ sign has a very specific meaning in the IRC protocol. :)

[davidcollantes → pferde]

That’s an old screenshot, which should be redone. We switched to :, so, it is now nick:example.com.

[_flux → pferde]

I believe Matrix does solve this, at least to an extent.