• relejek@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    What are your thoughts on briar. Its like session but you don’t need a central server to chat over tor. It has use features where you don’t even need internet.

    Downside is that it is only available for android.

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      3 years ago

      I don’t use it because it’s Android only, which greatly limits communications.

      Berty.tech might become an alternative to some of Briar’s features.

      Session/Status don’t need a central server either (decentralized and distributed).

      The question I have is how much is something decentralized/distributed and how peer discovery works. Ideally everyone would be a client/server (like bittorrent and I2P).

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        3 years ago

        Well it is me tooting the horn. I feel a balanced aproach is federation ( I hear “duh!”). A central node makes it convenient & fast yet for the sake of not giving power to one th3 nodes are to be distributed to serve there local/thematic community where the locals can also interact with other nodes and people there.

        Few easy to implement (relatively) chats are matrix, xmpp, Delta chat + own email server.