** Now in Android and iOS app stores **
No Face, No Name, No Number, No SIM card, No Internet! Berty is a messenger that doesn’t require any of your personal data or network connection (using Bluetooth Low Energy BLE). All conversations are encrypted with end-to-end encryption, in a fully distributed network.
It is a peer-to-peer messenger with no servers, no cloud - your data is only stored on the device where Berty is installed and used. No one would be able to access the data or shut the app down, not even the developers.
Being P2P, it means the IP address needs to be available to route messaging, but their site explains a bit about how they’ve tried to mask this. Whilst Briar is an excellent alternative, it is still Android only. The closest alternative is maybe Jami, but it lacks a non-Internet Bluetooth alternative if I recall correctly. Interestingly, Berty also can use Airdrop (iOS to iOS) and Android’s Nearby as alternative protocols.
You can share your details and add contacts via a QR code, public key, or an invite link. It is currently available on both iOS and Android, with desktop clients to follow.
#technology #messenger #berty #P2P #IPFS #privacy
afaik ipfs is “permanent” immutable storage. If you want your chat to be permanently on the record then this is ok, but not everyone may want that. Having the ability to permanently delete can be useful.
ipfs is not permanent and immutable, it can hardly even be called storage, as in, content exists on ipfs only as long as someone is interested enough in it to continue distributing it from their own computer, and after the last peer is gone the file disappears from ipfs
it’s similar to bittorrent in a way, so this is in no way a blockchain