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Selfhosted P2P File Transfer & Messaging PWA (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/

A p2p encrypted file transfer and messaging app. Here are some features below:

Open Source
Cross platform
- PWA
- iOS, Android, Desktop (self compile)
- App store, Play store (coming soon)
- Desktop
  - Windows, Macos, Linux (self compile)
  - run index.html on any modern browser
- Decentralized
Secure
- No cookies
- P2P encrypted
- No registration
- No installing
Messaging
- Group Messaging (coming soon)
- Text Messaging
- Multimedia Messaging
- Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
- Offline Messaging (in research phase)
- File Transfer
- Video Calls
Data Ownership
- Self Hosting
- GitHub pages Hosting
- Local-Only storage

Check it out!

App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
More info: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/introducing-decentralized-chat
GitHub: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

P2p encrypted file sharing is sadly still an unsolved problem

thanks for your input, but can you explain what you mean by "unsolved problem"?... p2p encrypted file transfer is demonstrated in the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean compiling an app to do that seems quite a high barrier to entry. I guess you could use the web version on mobile too maybe?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

the web version is intended to work on all platforms without compilation.

a html file-input is simple to add on a webpage. when selecting a file, its loaded into memory. at that point you can encrypt that file and sent it over webrtc... voila; p2p encrypted file transfer.

my approach to a mobile (ios/android) version is using capacitorjs/tauri... its basically a native wrapper with a webview.