Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative
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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 exportThe 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/
Does it use double ratchet?
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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 exportThe 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/
How quickly does it load when you're connected to 1,000 chats, each with 100,000 messages?
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This space definitely needs competition
I like Matrix, but I do run into issues, like messages not being decrypted even though I verified my session. The average user is not ready for it. Or rather, it's not ready for the average user
Agreed. Also Discord users complain matrix isnt really a replacement because voice UX
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How quickly does it load when you're connected to 1,000 chats, each with 100,000 messages?
You know, I'm not sure
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Can I tick a box in settings to force it to only connect to Tor Onion Services for enhanced privacy?
Not currently, would love to have it working under tor though.
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Sounds great! Will mobile clients be impossible due to the p2p nature of it?
I'm working on getting an android version up, don't have a mac so I can't make an IOS version. It works great in mobile browsers, I have been testing on mbile during development.
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Looks interesting.
Definitely needs a mobile client to become a viable alternative.Working on it, capacitor doesnt work because it's webview doesnt work with WebRTC
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I have been exploring self-hosted Discord alternatives and had been looking at Rocket Chat, so I am wondering what is the pitch for this versus something like that? I am very early in my exploration, of course.
Rocket chat needs a server, and doesn't e2e encrypt by default are this biggest differences.
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A couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?
They would have to guess the roomcode and password, it's pretty difficult to brute-force.
I'm planning some sort of auth system, but not sure how I wanna do it yet.
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You know, I'm not sure
@jerrimu @jagged_circle lol!
I read this as a very diplomatic way of saying, "Why.. would you do that? Don't do that."
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Rocket chat needs a server, and doesn't e2e encrypt by default are this biggest differences.
Ok, understood. So if you're not online, you pretty much lose messages, or are they cached and the next time the sender is online you get them?
My use case is a kid using a minecraft server and wants to talk to his friends, and we're using mumble now, but they want "discord" and they want things like plugins that allow mgmt from the discord channels, which I would be willing to try to develop, but the model pretty much requires a server to be online.
In general, I'm trying to make a small internet for my kids and their friends to have "normal" internet experiences without being on the wider internet. No youtube, but pinchflat -> jellyfin. No discord, but mumble. No google drive, but nextcloud.
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@jerrimu @jagged_circle lol!
I read this as a very diplomatic way of saying, "Why.. would you do that? Don't do that."
Yes lol.
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Does it use double ratchet?
No, just AES-GCN encrypted WebRTC
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A couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?
It would not be persistent. You can download a workspace to an encrypted file. I have plans to make a node.js server for workspace permanence.
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That sounds pretty cool! You have listed a lot of great privacy features. I'm sure you know they will likely restrict adoption, because Grandma probably won't be able to figure it out.
It does look neat and I will give it a try.
I tried to make it super easy, but I'm not a UI guru or anything.
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Ok, understood. So if you're not online, you pretty much lose messages, or are they cached and the next time the sender is online you get them?
My use case is a kid using a minecraft server and wants to talk to his friends, and we're using mumble now, but they want "discord" and they want things like plugins that allow mgmt from the discord channels, which I would be willing to try to develop, but the model pretty much requires a server to be online.
In general, I'm trying to make a small internet for my kids and their friends to have "normal" internet experiences without being on the wider internet. No youtube, but pinchflat -> jellyfin. No discord, but mumble. No google drive, but nextcloud.
That'as a noble endeavour, IDK if peersuite is the best app for that at the moment.
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Yes lol.
So basically you're repeating mistakes made by matrix
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So basically you're repeating mistakes made by matrix
There is literally no way to do performant e2ee at large scale. e2ee works by encrypting every message for every recipient, on the users device.
At 1000 users, that's basically a public room.
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There is literally no way to do performant e2ee at large scale. e2ee works by encrypting every message for every recipient, on the users device.
At 1000 users, that's basically a public room.
@moonpiedumplings @jagged_circle I read your initial question as 1,000 active chat *rooms* (with some large number of users for each), which.. seems excessive. That's what I was referring to.
1,000 individual private 1-on-1 chats (or group chats with 2-3 users), if that's what you meant (and especially over a long period of time, with lots of inactive chats), seems like a more common scenario*. If that was your question, I apologize.
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@moonpiedumplings @jagged_circle I read your initial question as 1,000 active chat *rooms* (with some large number of users for each), which.. seems excessive. That's what I was referring to.
1,000 individual private 1-on-1 chats (or group chats with 2-3 users), if that's what you meant (and especially over a long period of time, with lots of inactive chats), seems like a more common scenario*. If that was your question, I apologize.
@moonpiedumplings @jagged_circle
* I can't speak on behalf of the author, but I could imagine handling it by simply not decrypting _everything_ on startup, and only decrypting an older chat if you click on it or attempt to run a search on everything. Although for a search, I would expect some kind of hashed (and of course encrypted) database that allows a quick search of all prior messages.
