A New Kind of Instant Messaging
tox.chat
Whether it's corporations or governments, there's just too much digital spying going on today. Tox is an easy to use application that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is totally free and comes without advertising — forever.

I’ve seen a lot of talk about privacy minded chat clients on here but a search did not bring up Tox. I have been delving into the Gemini protocol ( https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) and a few folks there have listed Tox for contact. Anyone have thoughts on this?

It’s encrypted, peer to peer, FOSS, and requires no signup.

    • jackalope
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      3 years ago

      By “doesn’t support multi-device” you mean it doesn’t have syncing between devices?

      That’s kind of a big deal for me.

        • jackalope
          2·
          3 years ago

          right yeah I figured as much. I don’t know if there really is a way to do multi device with p2p.

    • GrittyOP
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      3 years ago

      Thanks for the insight! No offline messages is a big drawback, however aTox from Fdroid seems to have the service running all the time unless you kill it. Battery drain aside I think this could help. No multi device support is a big one though.

      Yeah Gemini is cool. Big gopher hole right now for me.