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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I make Peersuite, a p2p encrypted discord alternative (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey everyone.

I make Peersuite, an opensource free communication platform.

It's private by default, there's no sign-in or email collection.

It's peer-to-peer, there's no server, after discovery you are connected directly to your friends my AES-GCN encrypted WebRTC channels. It forms a mesh and identifies superpeers. Because there is no server, in order to save your data between sessions, you can download your workspace into a password encrypted file. Happy to answer any questions.

FEATURES:

chat with images, PMs, channels, and file send
group audio/video calling
screensharing
kanban board
whiteboard for diagrams/flowchartswith PNG export
collaborative document editing with formatted PDF export

The best way for self hosting is docker, its on dockerhub as openconstruct/peersuite. You can also download desktop versions from the github or use on the web at https://peersuite.space/

github - https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's peer-to-peer, there's no server

The best way for self hosting is docker

🤔

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes, it takes an initial connection for discovery. The peers need to know how to find each other.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If there's no account, how do I "log in" to my community or whatever

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you are hosting you send them the room code and a password. You can save a workspace and restart it later, so if you had an active chat it would reload automatically when you imported the file

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's no what I'm asking. If I open the site and create a workspace, then close the window, how do I get back into my workspace?

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

I'm guessing if you were the last person to close this session, all chat would be lost, unless you saved it to the file.

OP mentioned that they were working on a self-host version that persists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

Just log back in with the room code and password.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

It doesn't contradict by definition. So ipfs is also decentralized yet you will need to run a client /server. So the client is also the server. Allowing you to connect to a mesh decentralized system. Just like torrent is also both a client and a server.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I've looked into the sources because that was weird to me as well.

It's because the web "client" is using nginx as a local web server. You're selfhosting the web client

The app still is 100% a frontend js client

OP did link to their public instance of the client, but gives more opportunities