Roomy is an open-source Discord alternative built on the AT Protocol (ATProto), the same protocol that powers Bluesky, with ActivityPub (the protocol behind Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, and others) planned for the near future. Currently in alpha, it sits somewhere between Matrix and Discord in terms of its practical position in the broader chat ecosystem.
That said, it aims to fill the niche currently dominated by Discord, while remaining a free, fully federated solution for full user freedom and greater privacy. In this article, we’ll look at what Roomy is today, what it’s aiming to become, and what it could bring to this space.
ATProto isn’t federated or decentralized in any meaningful way.
Well, it is, just not in a good way that BSky implements
But
If they do that, then it will be for sure, it’s still alpha so hopefully they mean it when they say “near future”
I think you can use AT in a decentralized way, it’s just that Bluesky as a network doesn’t practically achieve that