Every person (or team) runs a small instance for their own domain. Instances find each other through DNS and well-known identity documents, exchange signed messages over HTTPS, and present the whole federated network to ordinary IRC clients such as Lurker, Mango, mIRC, WeeChat, Textual, etc., without the need of any plugins.
Parley is a chat network with no centre.
Every person (or team) runs a small instance for their own domain. Instances find each other through DNS and well-known identity documents, exchange signed messages over HTTPS, and present the whole federated network to ordinary IRC clients such as Lurker, Mango, mIRC, WeeChat, Textual, etc., without the need of any plugins.
can any layman user simply use it without running their own instance?
Yes, you will need to know someone running an instance to create an account for you.
So... no? :)
Yes, you can try it without running your own instance. You will need to use someone else's instance.
If you (top and child commentator) want to try without running your own, please send me an email: david dot collantes at gmail dot com.
I quite like this, but it feels like spam could quickly become a concern.
That is always a concern, yes. You can block users, and entire instances, that spam.
This is exactly what i was thinking about for the last few weeks (but am too stupid to implement myself).
It’s like email just for IM…
Many earth rotations ago, I was IMing through an mIRC bot because I refused to install MSN. This kind of reminds me of that too.
Both cool and worryingly convenient for the botswarms we've been warned of...
lol, so XMPP, but instead of XML, it is IRC. Alright, I dig it.