• Lynda
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    3 years ago

    I don’t use it because it’s Android only, which greatly limits communications.

    Berty.tech might become an alternative to some of Briar’s features.

    Session/Status don’t need a central server either (decentralized and distributed).

    The question I have is how much is something decentralized/distributed and how peer discovery works. Ideally everyone would be a client/server (like bittorrent and I2P).

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      Well it is me tooting the horn. I feel a balanced aproach is federation ( I hear “duh!”). A central node makes it convenient & fast yet for the sake of not giving power to one th3 nodes are to be distributed to serve there local/thematic community where the locals can also interact with other nodes and people there.

      Few easy to implement (relatively) chats are matrix, xmpp, Delta chat + own email server.