session-desktop
Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger [DEPRECATED SEE README] (by oxen-io)
Tox
The future of online communications. (by irungentoo)

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session-desktop | Tox | |
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301 | 57 | |
1,598 | 8,756 | |
0.1% | 0.1% | |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
about 2 months ago | 10 months ago | |
TypeScript | C | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.
session-desktop
Posts with mentions or reviews of session-desktop.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-29.
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How does SonoBus compares to Signal with regards to encryption, quality and latency?
https://github.com/oxen-io/session-android https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop https://github.com/oxen-io/session-ios
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"message deleted" prompt still appears after months
This is the correct place to raise feature requests and bug reports: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/issues
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session wont connect. is anyone else having issues?
We're at 1.10.8. Please update: https://github.com/oxen-io/session-desktop/releases
- Multiple accounts on session?
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Signal impersonation risk?
Session's reasoning seems much more... cagey. Telling people to recreate their identities themselves sounds a little like the Threema stopgap solution, but it's much sloppier (I can't imagine end users WANT to recreate their account and communicate this to all their contacts via a third party). They're talking about implementing this eventually, but the ticket for doing so was closed right after saying this.
- Session: ISP can tell when you use the messenger, right?
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⟳ 6 apps added, 93 updated at f-droid.org
Session F-Droid (version 1.15.4): Encrypted private messenger
- PGP ile elinizde bulundurduğunuz gizli lozan anlaşmalarını (dosya veya metin, ikisi de olur) şifreleyebilirsiniz. Resimdeki dosyanın şifresinin kırılabilmesi için en az 20 yıl gerekiyor (bu da en az, 20 yıldan fazla bile olabilir) Bu programın ne işe yarayabileceğini yoruma attım. (Kaydırgaçlı post)
- Iranian here responding to the signal post: clarifying the internet situation in Iran
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Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal
Or Briar, Session, Tox, Element/Matrix, Jami...
Tox
Posts with mentions or reviews of Tox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-13.
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Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users
I'm a big fan of Matrix, and run a small homeserver for my family in friends. But if you really want to explore the frontiers peer to peer seems really intriguing because you don't need any server. https://tox.chat/ just to name one.
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
How does it compare to the more mature Tox[0]?
0. https://tox.chat/
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Jitsi.org has started requiring authentication
You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff.
https://tox.chat/
https://jami.net/
I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text.
- signal, element ou wire ?
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I'm designing a spy game and need an Anonymous Chat App that's easy to use.
Still, Tox still around and kicking 😎
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Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption
jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was.
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Turkey Blocks Twitter After Public Criticism of Quake Response
Just heard about Tox today from a podcast: https://tox.chat/ (instant messenger, voice, video, screen share, file share)
- The law that will destroy privacy on the internet.
- για ποιό π***** λόγο το Viber ζητάει KYC;
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Is there a privacy-friendly site to upload an image with someone that can be deleted later?
Options are limited. All modern messengers require trust in the company running the server they connect to. So the only way to eliminate needing that trust is to use a messenger that is peer 2 peer (no server). This is limiting though since no server means no offline messaging. I know of one messenger that is encrypted, anonymous (required no identifying info to sign up) and is peer 2 peer. tox.chat
What are some alternatives?
When comparing session-desktop and Tox you can also consider the following projects:
qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
ricochet - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.

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