Federated social app: Discord-style servers and chat with ActivityPub.
https://github.com/y4my4my4m/harmony
I don’t remember hearing of it till now, yet it claims a lot of desired features. Github page shows only one contributor, one fork, 44 stars; lot of commits in the last week, oldest 3 years ago; GNU Affero General Public Licence v3.0.
Found via https://chat.btfree.org/@ozoned/3850a821-fc6d-431f-b235-feed68605f6e
Not I but I never liked discord and don’t really use chat much. Honestly outside of the forums im not sure I want to make more accounts which is how come I don’t use peertube much. Well that and it would kinda need an app as I mostly watch youtube on android devices.
If the author’s profile is any indication, it’s likely Harmony was written using AI:
It was. And they’ve also erased its generated disclosures.
Claude and cursor are mentioned in the
.gitignore.Looking to understand: what is the significance of this?
It means the project may be vibe coded (LLM generated with little to no verification of what the output is); meaning it’s a lot more likely to contain security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns.
And that’s ignoring the ethical concerns of using AI in addition to the lifespan of the project (vibe coded software often isn’t maintained very long).
But nowadays it’s more secure to use Claude to check for those vulnerabilities. The main downside is you don’t know how your project works/structured so you have no clear vision of the whole picture and future plans.
Thanks for the explanation!
@artyom@piefed.social who cares?
Most people? Certainly the 43 people who upvoted me.
Oh, they’re even working on KDE plugins! 🙄
It’s wild that just the thumbnail alone can tell you it’s vibe-coded.
Not just that but the dev couldn’t even be bothered to write their own bio, what are the chances they took the time to look over a single line of code or test anything at all?
the “instant messaging” line at the top is really funny in this context
Ok but, Matrix? Or even XMPP?
NOOOOOOOOOO WE MUST ALWAYS REPLACE $Product WITH “$Product BUT IT’S FEDERATED WITH MASTODON”!!!111
In my opinion, xmpp kinda fits perfectly? It was used in multiple platforms before (google, facebook, Gaia online, and gosh the list goes on, every platform 2005-2013???)
Why wouldn’t it be a decent solution for the fediverse software to pair with it, just like other networks did before?? Fediverse accounts already have the schema (user)@(domain.tld)
I understand Matrix needs more storage than xmpp, but I think either one could work.
One nice thing about XMPP is that it can theoretically use transports to connect to everything and then some.
I have seen a Matrix/ActivityPub bridge in action, though.
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i hope it isnt 100% ai generated
I don’t know about 100%, but I get the feeling a lot of it is vibe coded.
You can check the code frequency and contributors (there is only one, the maintainer).
its too frequent sounds like ai
Fluxer has federation on their roadmap;, I’ll be waiting for their implementation.
Matrix already has federation
do they aim for voice and videochat?
They already have that too, screen sharing included. Most clients work with it just fine.
Please correct me but, isn’t matrix.org, the worse option, because of all the traffic? Calls didn’t work reliably in said server, but I got to do a few streams with friends and it was working fine with not much latency, but we were both in another homeserver.
I’d like to try gaming tho.
Oh that’s me! :D Yes. @ruud@lemmy.world made me aware of it. It’s brilliant. I’ve been loving it for the last day and I’m blown away. There’s no AI declaration, but this is a mountain of work for one person has done. So I honestly have my questions.
However, it honestly doesn’t matter to me. If it’s free code created from an open weight model that will exist without this project, then we need to be questioning how we stand on this.
Does LLM generated code matter when you get to self host it, it’s free software. And I’m honestly at the point where, I say use their weapon against Big Tech. This isn’t replacing anyone. This wouldn’t exist without it. It’s had commits over the last few years. I think it’ll depend on maintenance, but this can always be forked and should be if maintenance doesn’t work. Because I think this is incredible. The least we can do is learn from it.
I don’t think you quite understand why AI is so bad and why local models are no different. https://whynoai.info/
Like 70% of the points on that site are… Disingenuous at best. It’s not wrong over all at all. But I do wish people would stop throwing in a bunch of bullshit along with the good points.
I hate ai on many moral standards and see it as highly problematic, but also see it as a fun toy.
It makes it hard to have any honest conversations about the problems around ai when everyone is basically a religious zealot spouting as much bullshit as the ai tech bros are.
Is ai a problem? Yes. There’s no honest way to disagree with that. But the real conversation is far more nuanced than that.
I stopped reading at “fun toy”.
There’s always some shill willing to go “yeah this steals people’s work, mangles it and spews bullshit back at them, all while destroying the environment, to make a few dudes richer. It’s nuanced”. 🙄
There’s using AI assistance for clean coding and following all the other guidelines of good software development otherwise.
And there’s giving Claude Code a simple prompt to generate a ready-to-run application and uploading the result to GitHub as-is because you want to be a coder, but you don’t know jack shit about coding or software development or licenses.
https://mony.world/ exists, hosted by us, if you want to play with it. (I wasn’t involved in the setup, so can’t answer much about it)
As someone not fond of Discord, it seems pretty decent and pretty Discord-like.
