Ring vs RetroShare

Ring

This (mirror) repo groups all parts of Jami. (by savoirfairelinux)

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RetroShare

RetroShare is a Free and Open Source cross-platform, Friend-2-Friend and secure decentralised communication platform. (by RetroShare)

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Ring		RetroShare
	Project
-	Mentions	32
198	Stars	1,673
0.5%	Growth	0.5%
1.9	Activity	9.4
27 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Shell	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Ring

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ring. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

RetroShare

Posts with mentions or reviews of RetroShare. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-12.

Retroshare
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jul 2023

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Feb 2022
Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jun 2023

Reminds me of retroshare, which is fully peer to peer and anonymizing. Anyone here try it before? Meant for closed communities and not open/global so a different niche I suppose
https://retroshare.cc/
RetroShare 2023
1 project | /r/SicherheitsMatrix | 19 Feb 2023
Looking for a way to directly sent files over the internet, P2P
5 projects | /r/Piracy | 8 Feb 2023

Retro Share https://retroshare.cc/ free and open source.
Decentralised blockchain messaging apps
3 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 21 Dec 2022

Retroshare via Tor/I2P
The Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing
2 projects | dev.to | 21 Sep 2022

Retroshare also offers encrypted connections that meeting hosts and participants can create a network of computers on and layer distributed services on top of it, like discussion forums, text-based chat, and email. This P2P platform is free, open-source, and fully decentralized, designed to provide maximum security and anonymity. It's available to Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows users.
How to share my local 1TB storage with my brother living abroad ?
1 project | /r/linuxadmin | 22 Jun 2022

I think you can do that with https://retroshare.cc/
Utopia P2P - What do you think?
2 projects | /r/thehatedone | 1 Apr 2022

Utopia has similarities to RetroShare, but RetroShare has more capability: portable, forums, channels, boards, Tor/I2P.
Anti-consumerism software
2 projects | /r/Anticonsumption | 13 Feb 2022

For messaging, retroshare is really good, it looks like an old forum messenger, but is free to download. its completely ad free.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Ring and RetroShare you can also consider the following projects:

Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.

Freenet - Freenet REference Daemon

Synapse - Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

GNUnet - GNUnet is an alternative network stack for building secure, decentralized and privacy-preserving distributed applications. Our goal is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. Starting from an application for secure publication of files, it has grown to include all kinds of basic protocol components and applications towards the creation of a GNU internet. https://git.gnunet.org/

Rocket.Chat - The communications platform that puts data protection first.

ZeroNet - ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.

Scrollback - Embeddable cross-platform chat for communities

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