This uses a proprietary service as the "scalable chat app" part. I can't help but think that calling this an "open-source [..] scalable chat app" is somewhat misleading.
Having spent time this week looking at open source chat packages this is a wonderful surprise.
I realize your focus is on the messaging, auth, Storage, etc., but I'm betting adding a screenshot of the UI to the readme.md would significantly increase adoption of the project.
JW, have you seen any self-hosted anonymous, no registration, e2e encrypted, ephemeral messaging tools? Bonus points for mobile apps that prevent screen caps.
I'd love a Bring-Your-Own-Network with above features that doesn't require SMS, email, etc. registration that "private" apps like Signal, Telegram, Whatsapp, etc have to growth hack to mainstream adoption.
Thats a great idea, we'll definitely get some feature comparisons up.
Re moderation/profanity filtering etc we're definitely planning on bringing that in with future work. I'll get a board of future work up and write up some issues to make it clearer what is planned.