A new privacy protecting, but easy to use new player - Veilid will soon appear on the horizon. Color me skeptical. It claims it uses P2P. They use phrases like heavy node (Super node?). I wonder is it Skype in new clothing?
Cult of Dead Cow hacktivists design encryption system for mobile apps - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/02/encryption-dead-cow-cult-apps-def-con/
It turns out that they have a presence in Twitter from July 2020 and their first pinned tweet there is a hex code which I surmise it to be their public key. So that is a first clue. Will they also map it to a human friendly name like ATP et al do? A Hubzilla in the making?