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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

just improve the UI, rest is great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Kanban is interesting, as it makes it seem like its geared towards work in some ways?

Is Documents a wiki section or a file repo?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

What does it do above matrix?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

At a glance looks easier to setup, less complicated, a few more features, Kanban, Notes etc. One big thing is the P2P. Matrix needs a server to run, this is P2P.

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

Yeah but it also looks like it lacks federation and support for third party clients

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

federation isn't really required here since account creation is trivial and non-persistent from the looks of it. Third party clients and being a protocol are definitely pros that matrix has over this. Matrix is definitely a lot more fleshed out than this project, but even though its new it already has more to it in some ways than matrix has. It also feels way more snappy than matrix, matrix can be sluggish at times.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

OK, so I tested Peersuite with a friend and I have to say: wow! We have collected a bit of feedback we would like to share:

Positive: The audio, video and screenshare quality is outright amazing and much better than Discord. We had no crackling, delays or any other disturbances in any of those features. The UI is simple and functional, and everything is snappy and fast. It is also very easy to setup a workspace and to find yourself around the overall UI.

Negatives: There appears to be no option to also share audio while screensharing, which currently is a major drawback for us. There is no dedicated audio channel. As soon as someone starts an audio call, you'll hear the person no matter what. Only if you purposely join the call, will the others hear you. Opting in and out of an audio channel like in Teamspeak or Discord would be nice. When my friend started a video call, the audio input of the webcam's microphone got activated, so I heard him twice. When he turned off the video call, the webcam's microphone stayed activated. Once someone shared their screen or their webcam and turned it off later, you would still see them in the video and screenshare menu but with the picture being black. We would expect to be gone when closing the stream. There is no option to adjust the volume of an individual user. It would be nice to assign users to carts or columns on the Kanban Board. It would be nice to adjust the size of the Collaborative Whiteboard.

It might seem like we are complaining a lot, but we actually really like the experience so far, so thank you very very much!! Once you can also share audio with your screen, and once we can setup our own persistent server (and maybe be able to adjust the volume or mute a user, and have the audio room a bit more isolated from the rest), we are ready to jump ship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

This review honestly sold me on trying it more than I already was. Assuming it gets actively maintained, this is a great roadmap feature/bug list. Perfectly presented constructive criticism. The internet needs more of this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

There are some seriously toxic fuckheads in this thread. Thanks for your effort so far, I look forward to seeing where your project ends up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any reason you chose github vs codeberg? Just wondering. Gave your project a star regardless. Nice work!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

I've been on github for like 8 years now, familiarity, plus the build tools are nice, github actions builds the docker images for me now

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

This looks very promising, thank you very much! Going to fully test it out tomorrow.

Is there anything planned to have a persistent server option (self-hosted)?

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

Yes, I plan to create a node server for permanent rooms. It will allow you to name the server, which then acts like a superpeer and keeps the workspace open and saves progress every 10-30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Wonderful! The possibility to spontaneously hop on the server to look whether a friend is online or not is very important at least for us compared to the necessity of having to set up the room each time (which would require us to coordinate beforehand that we want to hangout in a voice channel).

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