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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.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

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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] 35 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

It's html and javascript, the release comes with loose chromium files, ffmpeg binary and a 190MB executable. The link typo hasn't been fixed in hours, they don't link to the github, they misuse terminology, etc. and it's version 0.3.

That's a no from me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

You should ask for a refund.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's fair, the project is about a month old, the electron releases will get an installer for some platforms.

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

You should try out something that utilizes the normal system webview instead of electron that just bundles chromium.

Check out tauri

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tauri webview doesn't support WebRTC, would have preferred that. Using system webview would be super iffy because of WebRTC support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ahhh interesting. I haven't worked with webrtc so never ran into that!

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

Yeah it's an early version and I have no doubt that you guys will make it a lot neater, and it seems like a nice project. I just think it breaks several basic rules of privacy and security oriented programming, which is why I don't think it's a good fit for this community just yet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Noted. Thanks for the reralistic input

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The link typo hasn't been fixed in hours,

Whoa, hey, they're not paid on-call. Give it a few days.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've been babysitting my granddaughter, just got on the laptop.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

How dare you