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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 3 days ago* (last edited 2 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] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Sweet, I've been looking for something exactly like this for my upcoming radio station. I was going to use RocketChat but man is it a pain in the ass to get it to do the things I want it to do.

How difficult is it to install, configure, and keep Peersuite up to date? Does it integrate well with websites? Would it be suitable for use as a public chat? The whole "no server" thing is concerning, especially since I'll need to be able to see a full chat history at any given moment (for moderation purposes).

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

I don't have ANY moderation tools yet. TBH probably not the best fit for you right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

When I saw the words "Discord alternative", I got excited. Disappointing, but thanks for the heads up.

I'll check back in a few months to a year to give you time to build up the featureset. Thank you for making this. Discord doesn't have enough competition.