AI Weekly Malaysia

Parley is a federated, decentralised chat server that speaks plain IRC: you run an instance for your own domain and people talk to anyone as user@domain from irssi or any existing IRC client. The repo (git.mills.io/prologic/parley) shows 192 commits, 5 tags/releases, 4 open issues, 1 watcher, 2 stars and 1 fork, and it hit 210 points with 101 comments on Hacker News. The latest visible commit is a chat change about pushing a mention only to the mentioned user.

Why: If you run a community or internal chat and want to avoid a client-rollout project, Parley's pitch is that members keep using whatever IRC client they already have and just get an identity like user@domain — no new app to install or train people on. But the repo signals are tiny (2 stars, 1 fork, 4 open issues, 5 releases), so treat this as something to spin up in an afternoon and evaluate, not something to migrate a live community onto this week. There is no Malaysia-specific detail in this item; the only local angle is that a Malaysian dev group could self-host an instance on its own domain instead of renting a Discord or Slack workspace.