Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative
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Group voice and video are working fine. I've only tested screen share with 3 computers but if works fine also.
I just realized it's on the post. Sorry for that. This looks like a solid thing, for sure. Since we're talking, do you ever worry about people making use of the privacy features for nefarious purposes?
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I just realized it's on the post. Sorry for that. This looks like a solid thing, for sure. Since we're talking, do you ever worry about people making use of the privacy features for nefarious purposes?
I guess that could be an issue. I don't think privacy makes you a criminal, but sure they want it. But so do tons of people who follow the rules. A Scottish Indepence group cloned it on github. That's really coo to me, I love the idea of political dissidents using it, but the idea of it being used to hurt people does bother me.
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I'm gonna try this when I get time to tinker around since my friend and I are becoming exceedingly weary of Discord for communication. I also hate how bulky and rigid it is in its design.
Edit: Tested it on LAN between my PC and phone; it's easy to get running and works great. Some buttons seem invisible on mobile, like the channels list, so I had a hard time joining the "general" channel upon connecting to the workspace. I want to test it with my friend to see how it works across networks but it seems really promising so far.
What kind of phone? I do testing during development and it works fine on my tablet.
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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.
Hopefully gramma will figure it out, I'm a grandparent and I made it lol.
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So basically you're repeating mistakes made by matrix
Chat is Peersuite is limited to workspaces. You can only talk to people inside your workspace.
I didn't want to add accounts, and sign-ins and all those things that collect data.
So when you sign into peersuite, you are only talking to the people in the workspace with you.
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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.
I haven't had a chance to test the limits of Peersuite, but since it's a mesh network, I don't think it would run well with even 100 people.
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@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.Everything is decrypted on exiting transit. I use WebRTC for all the data.
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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/
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Well hell I may stand this up tonight. My only question is does the voice chat support push-to-talk?
Edit: Ok, gave it a spin. It does not support push-to-talk but being fully browser based I don't think that's a trivial thing to implement anyway.
That said, this is pretty sweet though certainly still rudimentary. I was really looking forward to the screen sharing but my friend on the other end said the quality and framerate were pretty bad. Not sure what flexibility there is as far as adjustable bit rate and framerate with what you're doing but I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this project.
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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/
Will you package it to flathub?
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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/
wrote on last edited by [email protected]feel-ford-bean-base
pass: poop
workspace code ^^^ for anyone that wants to test it out with me. I don't have friends to do so
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Well hell I may stand this up tonight. My only question is does the voice chat support push-to-talk?
Edit: Ok, gave it a spin. It does not support push-to-talk but being fully browser based I don't think that's a trivial thing to implement anyway.
That said, this is pretty sweet though certainly still rudimentary. I was really looking forward to the screen sharing but my friend on the other end said the quality and framerate were pretty bad. Not sure what flexibility there is as far as adjustable bit rate and framerate with what you're doing but I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this project.
Push to talk is in testing now. WebRTC changes quality automatically based on bandwidth. Its usually really good. It runs at full quality in testing ( i have like 6 devices I hook up and test). If you guys normally have a good connection, try again?
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Will you package it to flathub?
I could package the electron version to flathub, I hadn't considered that. I will read up on it.
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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/
My group recently switched to Matrix and so this would be a tough sell, but it seems interesting. I haven't been a fan of Matrix and miss the ease of UI in discord, but was happy to leave with it's direction. How would you sell it with a small group that has small, but mounting usability issues with Matrix?
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My group recently switched to Matrix and so this would be a tough sell, but it seems interesting. I haven't been a fan of Matrix and miss the ease of UI in discord, but was happy to leave with it's direction. How would you sell it with a small group that has small, but mounting usability issues with Matrix?
Get everybody in to at least try it. I tried to make everything as intuitive as possible.
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What kind of phone? I do testing during development and it works fine on my tablet.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G. It seems like anything near the bottom of the screen gets cut off and I'm not able to scroll down to see it.
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Push to talk is in testing now. WebRTC changes quality automatically based on bandwidth. Its usually really good. It runs at full quality in testing ( i have like 6 devices I hook up and test). If you guys normally have a good connection, try again?
Perhaps talking about bitrate wasn't correct of me. After looking at this again image quality itself is actually pretty good but the framerate is a different story.
To provide context, I used it to share the video game I was playing as my friends that use discord tell me they primarily stick to it for its screen sharing capability which they use when gaming.
I'm not sure how to best test this and provide metrics to you if this is improvable or even something you care about.
To attempt to take the connection factor out of the equation I opened two browser windows and viewed my own screen share from a different username and even then the framerate is not great.
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Perhaps talking about bitrate wasn't correct of me. After looking at this again image quality itself is actually pretty good but the framerate is a different story.
To provide context, I used it to share the video game I was playing as my friends that use discord tell me they primarily stick to it for its screen sharing capability which they use when gaming.
I'm not sure how to best test this and provide metrics to you if this is improvable or even something you care about.
To attempt to take the connection factor out of the equation I opened two browser windows and viewed my own screen share from a different username and even then the framerate is not great.
How are you using it browser or electron? What OS?
It looks great in my testing, wil ltry and reproduce the effect you're getting, -
I have a Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G. It seems like anything near the bottom of the screen gets cut off and I'm not able to scroll down to see it.
I have a galaxy I test on, what can't you see?
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Well hell I may stand this up tonight. My only question is does the voice chat support push-to-talk?
Edit: Ok, gave it a spin. It does not support push-to-talk but being fully browser based I don't think that's a trivial thing to implement anyway.
That said, this is pretty sweet though certainly still rudimentary. I was really looking forward to the screen sharing but my friend on the other end said the quality and framerate were pretty bad. Not sure what flexibility there is as far as adjustable bit rate and framerate with what you're doing but I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this project.
ptt is live on git & site now.
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I have a galaxy I test on, what can't you see?
Could you take some screenshots?I just tested it again and now #general shows up right after I join on mobile. I think it's possible that I was having network/browser issues or something at the exact moment I tried it before.
I am really into this, it was such a breeze to set up. Are there plans to offer more customization options like custom CSS, an editable configuration file, or something like that? I have a Podman container set up and I'm thinking of creating a volume mount to add some very basic styling but official support would be great.
