Cadence
cadence.moe · Personal blog · on HN since 2020
Cadence, a developer, writes on software projects and bugs, with posts on Bibliogram, Discord, phones, and AI training data.
What HN saysHN links it for the Bibliogram shutdown notice and the post on human-made badges; one commenter points to it for privacy and chat app discussion.
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r721 · 2026-02-06
There was Bibliogram, but it was discontinued: https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32683722)
fleebee · 2025-11-16
I like these ones:
https://cadence.moe/blog/2024-10-05-created-by-a-human-badges
shbooms · 2022-09-21
You are not misrembering. They announced it at the beginning of this month [0][1] and have officially shut down all of their hosted instances as of about a week ago [2]
[0] https://cadence.moe/blog/2022-09-01-discontinuing-bibliogram
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32683722
[2] https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram-docs/tree/master/docs/Instances.…
commoner · 2021-05-15
This submission should not have been renamed to "Show HN" since I'm not the author. Credits go to Cadence Ember (~cadence on SourceHut):
Website: https://cadence.moe
SourceHut: https://git.sr.ht/~cadence/
GitHub: https://github.com/cloudrac3r
Contact/Donate: https://cadence.moe/about/contact
Patreon (linked from contact page): https://www.patreon.com/papiophidian
j-james · 2021-01-07
Each of these have fairly different use cases.
WhatsApp is bad. They are owned by a data collection company notorious for gross privacy violations. Both the client apps and the server are completely closed source, which means either could be spying on you without any way to know. They do claim to implement the secure Signal Protocol, but how do you verify end to end encryption without seeing source code, anyway?
Telegram is a perfectly adequate choice. The user experience is similar to WhatsApp. It does practice some dark patterns - end to end encryption is only available in "secret chats" and calls, which means all other messages you send are readable by anyone with a warrant - and has had some high-profile exploits over the years, but the current iteration of its cryptographic protocol has been proved secure [1] (disclaimer: the paper claiming so came out within the last month, and I haven't found any discussion or review). All of the client apps are open source. The server is not, but if the clients are properly encrypting messages, that shouldn't be a security concern (To my knowledge. I am not a cryptographer).
Discord is community-oriented. It's primarily based around "guilds" (commonly referred to as servers) that function similar to Slack workspaces. A robust role-based permission systems has made it pretty much the de facto standard for large communities wanting a real-time discussion platform (think subreddits, Discourse forums, etc). They have some…