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Cake day: April 17th, 2023

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  • you’re welcome.

    Something i struggled with in the beginning;

    How it works;

    • you pick an account name, (short and cryptic)
    • it checks if it’s unique. if so, then it generates an SSL style certificate. This is your identity and contains a private key and only exists on your device. This thing acts as your password and identity. Losing this thing is fatal. nobody else has a copy. So you have to back it up yourself. There’s an option in the app to back it up. (it is saved in some zip format)
    • then you enter a screen name.
    • you can install your identity in any amount of devices. But you can also easily give every device it’s own account.

    i use this app on my devices(telephones, laptops), so that i can easily share any file (photo and documents) between them. photo’s are sent losless, unlike whatsapp.

    Oh… and another thing;

    Because it’s serverless technology, it’s dependant on all other nodes in the system to form a mesh.

    Whenever a node switches networks (e.g. when the software is running on a cellphone and you switch from WiFi to cell-band, or you’re switching cell towers), then it has to re-initialize with its peers under the new IP address.

    in such case it helps when, from your profile-settings, you switch your profile off and on again.