GoKawiilParley debuts as decentralized IRC-compatible chat network
Parley is a new federated chat system where anyone can run their own instance tied to a domain, with identities formatted like email addresses (e.g. [email protected]). Instances discover each other via DNS and exchange signed messages over HTTPS, but present themselves to users as a standard IRC server compatible with clients like irssi, WeeChat, or Textual without plugins. The project's creators describe it as a working proof of concept that is not yet hardened for production use.