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)

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  • Tox

    The future of online communications.

  • Actively mainained: Tox, Briar, Jami, Retroshare

  • ricochet

    Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging

  • Abandoned, unmaintained, deprecated or unreleased: Ricochet, TOR Messenger, Cwtch

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  • RetroShare

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

  • Actively mainained: Tox, Briar, Jami, Retroshare

  • Synapse

    Discontinued Synapse: Matrix homeserver written in Python/Twisted.

  • Not quite P2P, but strongly decentralised: Session, Matrix (Elements), XMPP + OMEMO (Conversations)

  • jami-cli

    Jami client for terminal

  • Actively mainained: Tox, Briar, Jami, Retroshare

  • session-desktop

    Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

  • Not quite P2P, but strongly decentralised: Session, Matrix (Elements), XMPP + OMEMO (Conversations)

  • Conversations

    Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android

  • Not quite P2P, but strongly decentralised: Session, Matrix (Elements), XMPP + OMEMO (Conversations)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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