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[ANN] Scalar, an experiment for a minimalist chat protocol inspired by Gemini

Simon Heath icefox at dreamquest.io

Tue Sep 22 23:40:46 BST 2020

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Hi, all. Pardon me if this is a little off-topic, it was suggested Ishare this here. I got annoyed at Matrix's complexity and IRC'sidiosyncracies, and said "I wish there were something like Gemini forchat protocols". So I decided to take a weekend and try to makesomething like that, and after going over my time budget by a factor ofeight or so I ended up with something I call Scalar: https://sr.ht/~icefox/scalar/

It's very WIP still, but there's a minimum viable product specificationand implementation, with much more emphasis on "minimum" than "viable".However, it's proof that the idea works, and carrying on the design ofthe protocol is pretty straightforward. I can't *quite* bring myself todesign something as hardcore minimalist as Gemini, but I still hope itmeets Gemini's design criteria. No idea if I will keep working on itin the immediate future, but maybe it will inspire interestingdiscussion.

Thanks a lot,Simon