this looks amazing
Discussion
Is it actually Tor based p2p? Like, you send messages to my own onion service with my own private key instead of some middleman server?
How do users find each other? DHT? A lot of apps try to justify lying about p2p functionality by having some of it for after a central server has already been used to connect peers to each other (Soulseek for example)
Like other Tor-based apps like OnionShare or Ricochet, Tor gives us a nice overlay network where every onion address is permanent (it's just a keypair) and NAT traversal is taken care of. So you get an invite link with a few addresses in it and you sync others.
We're also working on an optional server to support notifications on iOS where apps cannot run in the background enough to be useful. We expect a lot of people will use this to improve performance on other platforms too, but you won't need to.
Quiet is still not ready for daily use yet, and not audited, but we're serious about making it useful to small workplace teams and activist orgs that need something between Slack and Signal.
Homepage fucking baits you into clicking GitHub links by making them look like a normal link to another part of the website
Devs live in La La Land
"in proof-of-concept, Quiet works well as an always-on background app on Android, so Android versions will likely not require a push notification server."
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Looks like it might actually be p2p, users just need a peer to enter with and other peers to find more peers from
Looks interesting. Have you tested it?
Yes & it sucks it's been in the same state over a year now.
Why it sucks?
Tried it a year ago it's super alpha & pretty broken. Looked at it again a few days ago still pretty much in the same state it was last year not a single new feature has been added.
This however is productive & rolling out updates constantly improving & listening to the people.
https://simplex.chat read the protocol in the docs.
offline message is a question
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I was skeptical about them, but after researching a bit it looks promising. I will test it with my peer for a while
I'm worried tho about battery drainage
Quiet founder here!
We're also working on an optional push notification server which is necessary for iOS anyway, so that is our fallback if we can't get full p2p battery life to a good place.
But I can already get through a day with it even though we've done nothing to optimize, albeit with very noticeable battery use on mobile data (Wi-Fi battery use is much chiller).
I'm sure we could reduce drain by 3x by being more strategic about when we hit the network. And yeah, typical push is the fallback we're working on for people who don't want the battery drain.
Welcome.
Have you done any testing on nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq235tem4hfn34edqh8hxfja9amty73998f0eagnuu4zm423s9e8ks3f750r? For me, I'm unable to get past "Starting backend". It hangs there for me on every launch.
It's working on Graphene here. I tried creating a community, but haven't had anyone else join.
There is no central server but there is a trusted root "community owner" for the PKI.
better than a server owner!
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looks great
I see tor and know it will suck and probably work 5% of the time β¦ if youβre lucky.
TOR ? Naaaah ! Thanks but no thanks. Same with Bitchat.
Damned, if this goes on like this, I need a personal assistant to go through all those bookmarks. ππ
Lacks heaps of features keet already has
But keet is not open souce. They promised to open source it, but never did. It's been more than 3 years.