Mastodawn

I like how people are recommending a bunch of FLOSS messengers now, its an opportunity to check out underrated projects like I just a few minutes ago learned about the FLOSS project Quiet (https://tryquiet.org) from a discord community trying to relocate.

The website says its all E2EE P2P with tor built in, channels like slack/discord, no email or phone number required. Unfortunately no quantum resistant encryption on the roadmap so I still would recommend SimpleX for general purpose instant messaging but Tor-by-default and P2P are genuine advantages over Simplex

If you found this post interesting you might also be interested in these decentralised encrypted messengers with various pros and cons compared to eachother:

Cwtch
https://cwtch.im
http://cwtchim3z2gdsyb27acfc26lup5aqbegjrjsqulzrnkuoalq5h4gmcid.onion/

Briar
https://briarproject.org/

Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/

#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #Deniability #Meshtastic #Briar #Cwtch #SimpleX #Quiet #P2P #Tor #Slack #Discord

Quiet - Private messaging. No servers.

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ProfessorBoop Feb 10

@ambiguous_yelp I saw that you recommended Meshtastic here. You might also find #reticulum interesting. It's an e2e networking stack that can work over the internet like standard encrypted messengers, LoRa radio like #meshtastic (but with actually strong encryption), and many other transport links like Tor, i2p, or even encrypted QR code. Super interesting tech. https://reticulum.network/

@jonah from @privacyguides recently also made a blog post about it too.

https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/im-getting-into-mesh-networks-meshtastic-meshcore-and-reticulum/

Reticulum Network

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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp Feb 10

@ProfessorBoop

I've had a look at reticulum before and it was difficult to figure out what it actually does. How does it compare to yggdrasil, what are the pros and cons etc. If you're up for teaching me I'd be interested in talking about it and similar technologies together.

(i will read the blogpost either way first)

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ProfessorBoop

@ambiguous_yelp In practical terms, Reticulum can allow two people to have encrypted communications that can be routed either over the internet (IP, TOR, I2P, ETC) or a local multi city wide mesh network using LoRa radios. If the internet goes down or is blocked in someway, people could still have encrypted communications with Reticulum.

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🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧🔧📎 Ambiyelp Feb 10

@ProfessorBoop

Yggdrasil can also be run over mesh networks I think, an article I read about it said it doesn't need the normal internet infra to work and it seems to have a goal of removing central authority for address allocation.

I have read that yggdrasil isn't privacy focused but I think you can run I2P or Tor on top of it which would solve that so yeah I'm not sure what the differences are I'd need to look even closer