Took me a while to realise that the link was shared with Saotak himself. I love your articles Saotak (even if I’m not a furry) and I’ve learned a great deal of crypto from you

Thanks, this was quite detailed. You do need public relay nodes after all… which was what I was wondering.

I suppose they don’t work without having

• a coordination server of sorts
• having all the nodes on static IP

Like, if the IPs keep changing, and a device goes offline and then online, how does yggdrasil know how to reach that system?

The clients for XMPP are really bad. Also, matrix sells itself in a variety of ways, discord alternative, corporate usability, e2ee signal replacement, all that. Although matrix client implementations aren’t that great, the publicity does work. And IRC has historic relevance.