Tox
Synapse
Tox | Synapse | |
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56 | 367 | |
8,726 | 11,720 | |
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0.0 | 9.8 | |
6 days ago | 5 months ago | |
C | Python | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Apache License 2.0 |
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Tox
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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
- Current situation of Tox · Issue #1379 · irungentoo/toxcore
Synapse
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Organizing OpenStreetMap Mapping Parties
What are you thinking of here? Synapse has supported purging room history since 2016: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/911, and configurable data retention since 2019: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/pull/5815.
Meanwhile, Matrix has never needed the full room history to be synchronised - when a server joins a room, it typically only grabs the last 20 messages. (It does needs to grab all the key-value state about the room, although these days that happens gradually in the background).
If you're wondering why Matrix implementations are often greedy on disk space, it's because they typically cache the key-value state aggressively (storing a snapshot of it for the room on a regular basis). However, that's just an implementation quirk; folks could absolutely come up with fancier datastructures to store it more efficiently; it's just not got to the top of anyone's todo list yet - things like performance and UX are considered much more important than disk usage right now.
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GrapheneOS is moving off Matrix
some context re the Matrix isses, long history apparently: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14481#issuecomm...
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Non-profit Matrix.org Foundation seems to be moving funds to for-profit Element
Why not Matrix? Here's one reason: it has incredibly hard-to-debug edge cases, and plenty of bugs. One of my favourites is the one where people are kicked out of your room at random, which was reported a year ago[0]. It wasn't fixed, however, because the head of the Matrix foundation (Matthew) presumably didn't like the issue being posted on Twitter.
This is honestly really disappointing behaviour from a platform owner.
[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/14481
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The Future of Synapse and Dendrite
> That doesn't make this situation any less bad to the rest of the community.
How is the community suffering here? Let's say Element adds a bunch of baller stuff to their versions over the next few months and then closes the source. Can't the community just fork the last AGPL version? You might say, "well then no one can take the AGPL fork and make their own closed-source business", but do you want them to? Even if you do, they still can with the existing Apache-licensed version, just like Element is doing right now.
You're arguing that Element will lose a lot of contributions, but TFA points out that despite being super open, the vast majority of contributions are still made by Element employees (which seems to be true [0]). It's not the case that Element is looking to monetize the (small) contributions of others, it is the case that others are looking to monetize the (huge) contributions of Element.
And besides, aren't the MSCs the core of Matrix? It's already super possible to build your own compliant client and server.
The situation is that Element needs money to keep developing the ecosystem. It would be cool if there were a big network of donors and contributions, but there isn't. You're essentially saying, "that's fine, go out of business then, and the community will keep developing the ecosystem", but that's not happening now, and it can still happen anyway with the Apache-licensed versions, which again people can still contribute to.
[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/graphs/contributors
- Synapse v1.95.0 Released
- Matrix Synapse how use python scripts?
- Synapse v1.91.2 Released
- Synapse v1.89.0 is out
- Synapse v1.88.0 is out
- Synapse v1.87.0 (Matrix Server) Released
What are some alternatives?
ricochet - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
dendrite - Dendrite is a second-generation Matrix homeserver written in Go!
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
conduit
Matrix Console Web
Rocket.Chat - The communications platform that puts data protection first.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Mattermost - Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
matrix-docker-ansible-deploy - 🐳 Matrix (An open network for secure, decentralized communication) server setup using Ansible and Docker