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Related: Are there any standards, APIs, best practices for p2p peer discovery? I found this https://github.com/status-im/bigbrother-specs/blob/master/da... (mentions Gossip and Kademlia) but it is several years old and doesn't contain much info on peer discovery.
Check out libp2p, they're fairly mature and has discovery, relays, gossiping etc.
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> It's actually instant messaging without any client hiccups or latency (looking at you, Signal). This is almost certainly poor wifi / cell coverage, not Signal having "hiccups" or "latency." I routinely have real-time texting conversations with friends and I can see the messages are "seen" almost instantaneously, half-way across the US. I've also never had an issue with voice chat. It's been flawless, and very high…
> available on iOS too Ah yes, the two operating systems: Android + iOS. You can't have an account without registering a primary device on one of those OSs. No KaiOS, no Linux phones, no desktop machines, no web-only options. I'm mad about these mobile-duopoly-app-first services because you can't participate in alternative lifestyles when it Cowes to phone usage.
My wife and I use Briar for household communication because of subsidiarity rather than any direct privacy concerns. Out of all the messenger projects that we've tried, Briar actually works for local communication. It's actually instant messaging without any client hiccups or latency (looking at you, Signal). We've tried a ton of other options, but we keep ending up back at Briar. There are points of UX friction in t…
> The only issue that stops us from using DeltaChat (or email in general) is that we both have email hosting in Europe while we live in the US, so neither of us, being frugal in principal, wants to send information to Europe and back in order to tell the person 100 ft away to come help bring in the groceries. The Briar page seems to suggest messages are routed through Tor: > Briar uses the Tor network to prevent eave…
Are there similar iOS Apps?
Just wanna say this app saved my family and I when we went on a cruise. Normally, we would had had to pay to use the chat service via the ship's paid-only Wi-Fi (since we get no phone reception on the seas). Without needing to pay for the Wi-Fi, we were all able to use Briar to communicate whilst connected to the network, which made coordinating and finding each other on the ship way easier. It was great and worked r…
Note: on iOS's App Store searching for Briar shows Signal for me. https://i.imgur.com/5YiR1Xk.jpg
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You may like this app Meshenger (P2P Voice- and video phone App.) https://f-droid.org/packages/d.d.meshenger/
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If you cannot control your endpoint, you cannot control your keys or your privacy.
Briar will become useful to me when it can run on open platforms like a Pinephone, Librem 5, Precursor, etc.