"Federated", as used here, is often referred to as "decentralized", following a convention established by the famous network topology diagram from Paul Paran's 1964 paper 'Centralized, Decentralized and Distributed networks'. Distributed: all connections are made directly between user apps, with no servers required.Ī "distributed" network is commonly referred to as a "P2P" (peer-to-peer) network, or sometimes a "mesh" network.Federated: all connections between user apps must be made through servers, but users can still communicate even if they are connected to separate servers, controlled by different operators.Centralized: all connections between user apps must be made through a server (or cluster of servers) controlled by one operator.Network topology terms are used in the table above as follows:
Proteus (own protocol) for text, DTLS and SRTP for voice Hybrid (mostly distributed, but public groups are federated) Local network, community network (internet?)
#Messaging app like qtox android#
MPL (core), GPL (most apps), unclear (iThing app)Ĭore library: GNU GPLv3, desktop, Windows 10, iOS clients: GPLv2, Android client: GNU GPLv3, flexisip server: GNU AGPL Message editing, image sharing, file transfer Image sharing, file transfer, video embeds Yes (audio and video via Jitsi Meet plug-in) Sometimes (works Delta Delta and with other email clients that support Autocrypt) Text, voicemail, audio (?), video (?) (audio/video chat is said to work between Conversations and some other jabber apps, including Movim)
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