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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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I make Peersuite, a p2p encrypted discord alternative (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 export

The 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/

github - https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

It's worth noting that Discord misuses the term "server" to mean a community. When you create a Discord "server", they aren't booting up a machine just for you. So the lack of servers in this project has nothing to do with the ability to create groups of channels with shared moderators that represents a community.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Sure, terminology is confusing here.

But this concept of communities and especially channels is exactly what I like about Discord. It's their main concept. You can't call Signal a Discord alternative either because it has call, screenshare and chats. It's just a completely different UI concept.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Right, but this does have communities - they're just called workspaces. The screenshot literally shows the equivalent to a Discord "server". You're getting confused by the correct usage of the term servers because this project doesn't have backend servers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm finding it confusing as an old fart that they can't distinguish the terminology even thou they're on the Fediverse.

Amazing 😁

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