Libervia (formerly Salut à Toi or SàT) is a multifunctional communications application and decentralized social network[3] published under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license.[2]

Libervia (formerly Salut à toi)
Initial release2008
Stable release
0.8.0[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 30 November 2021
Written inPython
Operating systemUnix, Android
Typeinstant messenger, microblog, XMPP client
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-later[2]
Websitelibervia.org

Initially made for instant messaging and chat, Libervia developed additional functionality that can be used for microblogging, blogging, filesharing, audio and video streaming, and gaming. It has Atom feeds, and both WYSIWYM and WYSIWYG editors.[4]

It uses XMPP.[4] It also implemented ActivityPub in beta in late 2022, with a gateway that allows the two protocols to intercommunicate, aiming to have it in alpha in early 2023.[5]

Architecture edit

Salut à Toi uses a client-server architecture. The client consists of a backend daemon (which can be installed locally or on a server) and one of several frontends. Frontends include:[6]

  • jp, a command-line interface
  • Cagou, a frontend for desktops and mobile phones
  • Libervia-web (formerly Libervia),[7] a web interface[8]
  • Primitivus, a text-based user interface

Third-party frontends include:

  • Wix, WxWidgets-based desktop GUI (now deprecated)
  • Bellaciao, Qt-based graphical user interface (development on hold)
  • Sententia, an Emacs frontend (development is currently stalled)

References edit

  1. ^ "Libervia v0.8 « La Cecília »". 30 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b "README". Archived from the original on 2022-02-20. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
  3. ^ Clemens Ticar (4 December 2015). "Alternative zu Facebook entsteht in Wien". Futter (in German).
  4. ^ a b Mathias Huber (27 February 2014). "Salut à Toi; Verbesserter XMPP-Client". Linux-magazin.de (in German).
  5. ^ "Libervia progress note 2022-W45". salut-a-toi.org. November 2022.
  6. ^ Frontends on salut-a-toi.org
  7. ^ "#725761 - ITP: libervia-web -- web frontend for Libervia - Debian Bug report logs". bugs.debian.org. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  8. ^ Drapher (1 April 2014). "SàT : le couteau suisse Libre et open source de la communication" (in French). Reflets.

External links edit