FediHood is free software for talking with the people around you, by topic [Fediverse and now open source]

fedihood.social/about

FediHood is a social network built around the place where you live. You choose a city and the topics you care about, then read what neighbours are saying and join in.

It stays a normal fediverse app. Your posts can reach Mastodon, PixelFed, Misskey and the rest, and posts from those servers reach you too.

Source code: git.holos.social/tom79/FediHood

There’s only one instance so far: fedihood.social

If new instances are created, they should show up here: fedihood.fediverse.observer/list

fedihood.social/about

This seems unreasonable to me:

Only one browser at a time holds the keys decrypting new messages, moving needs a fresh backup from the active browser.

Messages sent after the backup was taken stay unreadable on this browser.

Makes e2ee much easier that way.

I feel like it should still work if making a backup didn’t clear a browser, and restoring to a second browser should let both work.

key management is lot harder. signal does not support multi-clients for a reason, you can look at the history of matrix with encryption to find out what are the problem is. I’m not sure they even fixed or just know of all the failure modes of it.

Matrix is a good example I think: It allows a client to authorize another client so both work. It’s not the same ‘backup’ scenario, but proves the concept can work.

Is there an easy reference for the history there? I’ve used it over the years but not regularly enough to see it changing.