We got an interesting announcement a little over 12 hours ago.
The open source team tied to Peakd has released a chat application. This looks like it could eventually be similar to Discord. Right now we have the basics of private and group messaging.
It can be found at chat.peakd.com.
When we go to open the app, we get the option of being a guest or using Keychain.
We can either update the preference or just enter.
Next we get our screen with the communities that we joined via the Peakd application along with the other options.
In addition to the community, we can send a direct message or set up a group chat with multiple people.
As you can see, the direct message can go up to 4 people where, I presume, the group can handle much more.
Another Hive Based Tool
What is so special about this?
To start, it gives Hive communities the opportunity to leave a Web 2.0 platform. For years we took our engagement offline and onto a platform that benefits some centralized company. This is no better than the Ethereum people claiming they would use Reddit for communication and voting. Why turn to Web 2.0 when we are trying to construct Web 3.0?
One of the reasons was a lack of choice. Now, as we are seeing, this is not the case.
This application was funded by the Decentralized Hive Fund. From what I understand, it is open source, thus any project team can incorporate it.
As for the messages, they are not posted on-chain. Thus we are not spamming the chain nor are personal messages at risk of showing up. Perhaps there will be more details coming out about how things work from the technical perspective.
This was built by people on Hive, for those who are part of the ecosystem. At we can see, the options are basic but it does have community chat. This will give project teams the preference of leaving Discord at least for their group notifications.
An Expanding Ecosystem
In addition to the applications that write to the chain, we are starting to see communication tools showing up. This is all part of building out an ecosystem and bringing the "Everything Protocol" to light.
The idea of supporting the Web 2.0 projects knowing that we are simply the product should be unappealing to all of us.
We know what YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Discord are all about. They seek to mine people's data for the purpose of monetizing it. At this point, we can believe that this application is not mining the data contained in people's messages.
The open source team that is tied Peakd is behind this project. They are the ones who are responsible for bringing forth the open source Internal Exchange (Hivehub Swap).
Making Communities On Hive Stronger
For years we talked about communities. Many projects are looking to build infrastructure to cater to this. One of the tenets of Web 3.0 is that it will be community driven instead of by application.
Notice how it is pulling the information (Links) from the community set it tied to Peakd. This is another example of how it is tied to Hive and not dependent upon the data housed in a non-Hive based company like Discord.
We still need to know a bit more about this yet, if it is truly open source, we can imagine the interest in integrating it into other front ends.
It is another tool that is allowing Hive to become a standalone ecosystem that can cater to the needs of projects and individuals who find their way here.
Let us see how quickly people adjust.
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