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ricochet
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
This looks like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
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Where is there a tutorial for Ricochet Relay?
Ricochet seems dead. It's been five years since its last commit to their git repo, and their website's certificate expired last year. This is probably why you can't find much information.
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The Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
I think something like Ricochet (if it were still actively maintained) could be a good solution.
https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
Every user is their own Tor onion service, so you get E2E encryption and no centralized servers. The whole thing hinges on the security of Tor itself which is probably a safe enough bet.
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Ricochet reborn: A user friendly TorChat for everybody available for GNU/Linux and in the Mac Store and Windows Store.
With that being said, if I had just one piece of advice - try to avoid ostentatious phrases like Speek is by far the most secure way to converse or 100% anonymous. Tor itself is not 100% anonymous, so that should immediately make anyone cautious. One of the things that I admired about the original Ricochet was that the developers never made brazen claims about their software. In fact, quite the opposite.
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
Check out https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/prot.... It is metadata-free. It does not require a centralized server. It uses Tor.
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Why don't we have a privacy-compliant peer-to-peer communication platform yet? (something like the bittorrent of messaging and chat and blogs etc)
Abandoned, unmaintained, deprecated or unreleased: Ricochet, TOR Messenger, Cwtch
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TOR Messenger
briar. ricochet. Tox with Tor as a proxy. any other trustworthy messenger with Tor as a proxy.
ricochet.im website not working (??)
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A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community
> there isn't a currently easily available obvious way to have private secure conversations.
Ricochet[1] works really well. It uses Tor hidden services to communicate. Your Ricochet ID is your onion address. To add a contact, you input their Ricochet ID and a short message, and Ricochet connects to their onion address and sends a contact request. If the contact request is accepted then you'll each show up as a contact on each other's client and can chat whenever you want.
Tor is really perfect for this, you can't get more private or censorship-resistant than Tor.
The UI is currently not great, but that's not a protocol problem.
The biggest problem with Ricochet is that hardly anyone is using it.
Conversations
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⟳ 1 apps added, 48 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device
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⟳ 1 apps added, 23 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.11.0+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
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Instant Messaging: XMPP or Websocket
So XMPP is an awesome protocol in theory. Also many issues you're trying to solve are probably already solved in one of the specifications and I personally think that XMPP is missing out on clients. Some clients are nice (i.e. Conversations or Dino) but they are not as appealing as Telegram or Discord.
- More Instant Messaging Interoperability
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Signal losing SMS, what are you switching to for SMS?
I never give out my true cell phone number to anyone. In cases where I absolutely have to use SMS, I use Conversations with jmp.chat to send SMS over XMPP from an alternate number.
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Movim – A decentralized social platform built on XMPP
Unfortunately I haven't found a mobile XMPP client that has the same features as Movim.
For example, conversations.im still lacks Message Reactions, Threads, and Publish-Subscribe:
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Tim Cook's response to improving Android texting compatibility: 'buy your mom an iPhone' | The company appears to have no plans to fix 'green bubbles' anytime soon.
Regarding audits, they happen regularly in the XMPP ecosystem, and if you are looking for e.g. a mobile client which has a good track record, I would suggest to look-up https://conversations.im/ (or https://quicksy.im/ since you are okay with contact discovery using mobile phone numbers), and perhaps https://siskin.im/ as an iOS equivalent.
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⟳ 3 apps added, 53 updated at f-droid.org
Conversations (version 2.10.10+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile
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Chat app to allow messaging between my daughter and I?
If you are really set on a LAN-only setup you could look at Prosody (combined with an Android app such as Conversations) which Snikket is based upon. It's not as "ready to go, out of the box" as Snikket and therefore requires a slightly higher skill level, but in exchange it is a lot more customizable and adaptable to different kinds of deployment scenarios.
- Ejabberd scalability: single node with 2M concurrent users (2016
What are some alternatives?
Tox - The future of online communications.
blabber.im - blabber.im basiert auf Conversations und ist ein Open Source XMPP/Jabber Messenger für Android 4.1+
Xabber - Open-source XMPP client for Android
Smack - A modular and portable open source XMPP client library written in Java for Android and Java (SE) VMs
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
Android-Paho-Mqtt-Service
yaxim - yaxim - a lean XMPP/Jabber client for Android
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Synapse - Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.
ricochet-refresh - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
Speek - Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications
Signal-TLS-Proxy