I don’t understand why a privacy respecting app would use discord for their community. I subscribed to their mailing list and look forward to any updates.

This is exceptional. This truly looks like the perfect decentralised chat service.

I really hope this takes off, but knowing most people, it will likely remain niche for a long while till something like Signal falls (which I don’t wish for to happen btw).

Is there a whitepaper or anything else that explains the details of the privacy measures? I skimmed through the README, but I’d like more detail.

Thank you for bringing this to the open. I hope that as time goes on, this gets more attention and gets adopted by the community (I can’t force my family to use anything other than corporate spyware, and I personally have no need for chat apps, but I hope someone does).

Thanks

https://briarproject.org/ provides better protection of metadata and it’s already on f-droid - plus, a desktop client is coming up.

Importantly, Briar funding paints the project as trustworthy https://briarproject.org/about-us/ :

Briar has received funding from Small Media, the Open Internet Tools Project, Access, the Open Technology Fund, the Prototype Fund, Internews, the NLnet Foundation, the Next Generation Internet programme and the ISC Project.

How does it work? Is this similar to Briar?

Are you guys going to make it available on Fdroid?

Looks interesting, is the android app available any other way than the playstore? On the github page I can only see files for windows and linux, maybe I am missing something obvious here.

That’s very cool! I am not familiar with Bluetooth Low Energy technologies. How does a message travel from the sender to the recipient without internet?

Looks very promising, but probably and unfortunately will lack mass adoption

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I’ve had my eye on this for a while, I’m super interested in it

BLE has a very short communication distance (absolute max range 100m in laboratory conditions). This would make it nearly useless unless you and the person you are communicating with are in the same room—unless EVERYONE used the app to allow mesh communication. Either way, it seems to impractical for it to catch on, sadly.

I just tried it as I was intrigued, but it didn’t go so well.
The first thing it did was complain about not being able to connect to its notifications server, so I couldn’t enable notifications… even looked into the app permissions and there was nothing preventing it from pushing notifications.
Then I wanted to see which OSS was used and that link didn’t work. (possible license violation?)
After that I wanted to try the mode where you can communicate locally through BLE and all that. Enabling that feature causes the app to just crash when opening it.

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Thanks for sharing

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