I have an anonymous online friend. How can we ensure that even if we lose access to our current chat platform we will be able to find each other, while still maintaining our anonymity?

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  • Conversations

    Discontinued Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/iNPUTmice/Conversations] (by siacs)

  • Android: Conversations [it can be routed through Tor]

  • RetroShare

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

  • RetroShare, for desktop (though only add people you trust)

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • OnionShare

    Securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network

  • For file sharing: OnionShare

  • Monal

    Monal for XMPP (iOS and macOS)

  • Mac: Psi, Adium, Monal (though it's in beta phase at the time of writing and unfortunately and they have odd stances on GDPR (source))

  • ChatSecure-iOS

    ChatSecure is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iOS that supports OTR and OMEMO encryption over XMPP.

  • iOS: ChatSecure [No Tor connection? That I don't know.]

  • 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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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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