session-desktop
Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger (by oxen-io)
Tox
The future of online communications. (by irungentoo)
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| session-desktop | Tox | |
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| 298 | 49 | |
| 1,075 | 8,704 | |
| 6.1% | - | |
| 9.8 | 0.0 | |
| 5 days ago | 5 days 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 2022-10-27.
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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
- 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...
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need the name of the apps except that element
Also I prefer Session over matrix: https://getsession.org/
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#IranProtests: Signal is blocked in Iran. You can help people in Iran reconnect to Signal by hosting a proxy server.
Any info on how well the Session messenger would work in Iran?
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Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community
I suggest they use Session Private Messenger instead. To judge by the activity in the public "Session" group in the client today, Iranians are not having any trouble with connectivity. That might be because Session uses a decentralized network.
- Absolutely Insane "Feature"
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 2023-01-12.
- My list of favorite secure messaging apps
- Berty: The privacy-first messaging app
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Is There A Messaging(Text,VoiceNotes,Pics,Vids,Voice&VideoCall) App, That is open source, End to End Encrypted, Zero Knowledge Based & Most Importantly Doesn't Require Phone Number To Register? & Profile can be shared by the user to others by username? Please Help!
Or you could try Tox . It's Tor based, but i don't know too much about it otherwise.
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Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal
Or Briar, Session, Tox, Element/Matrix, Jami...
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The Ultimate Guide to Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing
Tox Chat is a free, encrypted, open-source, decentralized P2P conferencing platform. Its video and voice calling capabilities include many enterprise-grade features like screen sharing, 1:1 chat channels, group chat, and file sharing. Tox supports desktop platforms including macOS, Windows, and Linux and offers iOS (Antidote) and Android (Antox) connections.
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SimpleX Chat - the first messaging platform that has no user identifiers (not even random numbers) - v3.1 of iOS and Android apps released - with secret chat groups and server access via Tor.
Nuh, I prefer using p2p chat app https://tox.chat/
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Most secure messaging app | Signal | why only signal??
I will go more with solutions using the Matrix (chat network protocol) or Tox (p2p chat, nice for 1 to 1).
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Father remotely reading adult sister's texts
Not entirely true, apps like Signal, Element, Tox, and some other messaging apps are free and private. Linux distributions (and BSD) such as TAILS OS, Solus and a few hundred others are also free and private. You can also choose to make basic changes like going through your accounts changing all the passwords, setting up 2FA, and locking down the settings every once in a while to increase privacy and security, all for free. Not having a smartphone or phone at all is also really private and can even save you money.
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Speek! - A decentralized and anonymous messenger based on Tor hidden services (allows anonymous p2p file sharing) Mac, Windows and Linux
What would be the advantage of this over Tox?
- Anti-censorship tips & tricks
What are some alternatives?
When comparing session-desktop and Tox you can also consider the following projects:
Matrix Console Web
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
ZeroNet - ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
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/
Signal-Desktop - A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
berty - Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network