chat.positive-intentions.com

https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat

I'm excited to share with you an instant messaging application I've been working on that might interest you. This is a chat app designed to work within your browser, with a focus on browser-based security and decentralization.

What makes this app unique is that it doesn't rely on messaging servers to function. Instead, it works based on your browser's javascript capabilities.

Here are some features of the app:

• Encrypted messaging: Your messages are encrypted, making them more secure.
• File sharing: Easily share files using WebRTC technology and QR codes.
• Voice and video calls: Connect with others through voice and video calls.
• Shared virtual space: Explore a shared mixed-reality space.
• Image board: Browse and share images in a scrollable format.

Your security is a top priority. Here's how the app keeps you safe:

• Decentralized authentication: No central server is required for login, making it harder for anyone to gain unauthorized access.
• Unique IDs: Your ID is cryptographically random, adding an extra layer of security.
• End-to-end encryption: Your messages are encrypted from your device to the recipient's device, ensuring only you and the recipient can read them.
• Local data storage: Your data is stored only on your device, not on any external servers.
• Self-hostable: You have the option to host the app on your own server if you prefer.

A decentralized infrastructure has many unique challenges and this is a unique approach. Ive taken previous feedback and made updates. Its important to note, it is still a work-in-progress and provided for testing/review/feedback purposes.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

The live app

About the app

Docs

The link goes to a related post on another community so I don't have to duplicate it here.

Basically, I'd like to discuss tech options for a Reddit/Lemmy alternative. Here's what I've found:

• Iroh - early days alternative to IPFS promising improved performance and application control
• Appleseed - old-ish proposal for a distributed trust system - I'm thinking of using it for moderation (i.e. if you block/report similarly to someone else, that will get automated; you could also explicitly trust someone else [e.g. a CP-detector bot])
• TrustNet - builds on Appleseed - still reading through the paper to know what it adds over Appleseed, if anything

Goals:

• distributed storage - worried the fediverse will scale poorly (become too expensive)
• distributed moderation - power-hungry mods suck
• local-first - cache/host stuff you care about, reserve some space for preservation

Non-goals:

• make money - it's a hobby for now, everything would be FOSS
• image/video hosting - legal issues if you get random CP or something
• preserve all data - I'd rather sacrifice older/less popular content than lose users - community can run caching servers
• fediverse compat - P2P makes that difficult, but a bridge should be feasible

Thoughts? What am I missing?

Also, would anyone like me to post updates? It'll mostly be stuff from my research, if I post code, it won't be for a while (I have limited time).

Hi all! I’m working on my cyber security bachelor’s thesis and am reaching out to gather insights from users who use decentralized messaging applications.

I would be incredibly thankful if you could find the 2 to 4 minutes to fill out the form. Your experience in the matter is incredibly valuable.

You’ll find the survey at https://questionnaire.ink/412758

Your responses are confidential and will be used solely for supporting my thesis. No personally identifiable information is collected.

Thanks!

I want to know if AWS blocks hosting Tor relays. Thinking about creating 10-20 relays if it allows.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/4956418

> I like the IPFS technology as an idea, I can pin my files I guess, but I don't know any communities or services that I wanna use that leverage IPFS. > > I was wondering what y'all are using.

Mainstream news coverage of the fediverse, mostly mention Mastodon, but seems reasonably balanced.

last updated March 2022 but still mostly accurate, i think

via https://digitalcourage.social/@mro/109404178222150724

Interesting look at UX for decentralised systems

More discussions:

• https://lobste.rs/s/vzfrn2/decentralized_identifiers_dids_v1_0
• https://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%25EiDaoVNwPGMteykCAmkoMS8r4hpreGANkw9eZPy6BJw%3D.sha256
• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Jul/0076.html
• https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-did-wg/2022Jul/0024.html

Previously: https://lemmy.ml/post/347337 "W3C Director's Decision on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) 1.0 Proposed Recommendation Formal Objections"

via https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-did-wg/2022Jun/0002.html

More info: https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/faqs/2021-formal-objections/

A new freenet project? I don't know anything about it, just discovered the repo.

[0.5.4] - 2022-04-04

Added

• RDF hashmarks store
• Qt SparQL models API: add async support
• Add MIME type recognition for turtle (ttl), YAML
• Add UI to browse pronto graphs from a browser tab

Changed

• Improve the Curve25519 pubsub API
• SmartQL P2P service
  • Implement a peer-dependent authentication middleware for the http service
• Pronto
  • galacteek.ld.pronto: pubsub service is now encrypted with curve25519
  • Use time-rotating peer-dependent credentials for the smartql p2p service
• Mediaplayer:
  • Deprecate old MFS+JSON playlists storage
  • Store playlists as RDF (schema is: ips://galacteek.ld/MultimediaPlaylist)
  • Playlists by default are stored in a private RDF store
  • Playlists can be published to a public RDF store
  • Public playlists are synchronized between peers via a SparQL script
• Content providers peering: separate Pinata nodes config by region
• Update Pillow to v9.0.1
• IPS contexts loader: add TTLCache for small schemas

Fixed

• AppImage: fix xkb issue when running in Wayland (set XKB_CONFIG_ROOT)

Let this guy explain it for you:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

All is there, based on sound economic theory and anchored in facts....

I only see posts dating up to Sep '21 and nothing more. I've cleared my profile, reinstalled a new profile, etc, but still Sep '21.

I also noticed neither the blog, the community nor their Twitter account shows anything past Sep '21.

Now I'm starting to think maybe it's not me.... But how does a P2P network just stop working, if so?

Hey, I just discovered manyverse. It looks interesting but I kind of understand why I had not heard of it even though it seems to have been around for a while now...It looks like it's a little bit complicated to discover and follow people, I know it's a common issue for decentralized tools but with this one it's even harder since it only works with invites (correct me if I'm wrong).

Have you heard about it? What do you think of it? Apparently the best way to discover people is to join a room server but again, I need an invite for that. Can one of you guys invite me to a room server please?

This is an essay I wrote. It explains and demonstrates on a socio-philosophical level how and why decentralization is the solution to the most pressing issues of today’s Information Technology, social media in particular.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/127579

> Jami is a GNU package for universal communication that respects the freedom and privacy of its users. Jami is an end-to-end encrypted secure and distributed voice, video, and chat communication platform that requires no central server, and leaves the power of privacy and freedom in the hands of users.

The upcoming fully private and decentralized cross-chain exchange for cryptocurrencies aspiring to set new standards.

Friendica is a decentralized open-source social network which federates with many other social networks including diaspora*, Hubzilla, and the Fediverse of social networks. It can mirror too with Twitter and IFTTT, or export posts to Discourse, libertree, Tumblr, Wordpress and e-mail.

It is a good candidate for being an alternative to Facebook, and you can either join a public server, or self-host your own instance.

In this video I give an overview of Friendica's functionality and features, a comparison with Hubzilla, a look at it's interface, and a tour through the settings menu. I also make the case for it being a cleaner way to use Twitter.

Watch https://youtu.be/nS6oAy7ibqc

#technology #opensource #friendica #decentralized #selfhosted

Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication. You can self-host and federate, or join existing servers, to enable instant messaging, text chat in chatrooms, voice and video chat, file transfer, and even bridging between many other networks such as IRC, XMPP, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, RSS, Facebook Messenger, Discord, Slack, and many more.

End-to-End-Encryption, device verification and trust, replication of chatrooms for redundancy, are all hallmarks of Matrix. It can serve as a secure communications platform for governments with roving diplomats, or for end users be an alternative to Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp.

It is the opposite of a walled garden, with its vision of acting as a generic HTTP messaging and data synchronisation system for the whole web - allowing people, services and devices to easily communicate with each other, empowering users to own and control their data, and select the services and vendors they want to use.

Watch at https://youtu.be/3AVsNqH_-9M or at https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA:4/matrix-an-open-network-for-secure%2C-2:b

#technology #opensource #security #privacy #instantmessaging #matrix #alternativeto #selfhosting #federated #decentralised

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a real-time text chat social network that was created in 1988 in Finland, and is still in active use today.

In this video I talk about what it is and how it differs from other social networks, how to connect to it, I show what the user interface looks like, and end off with some tips on how to secure your nick ID.

It is often used for direct contact with technology project developers and other tech support, but there are also numerous social chat channels, or you can create your own channel in a few seconds if it does not already exist.

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Watch at https://youtu.be/PDRzuVHFWLQ or on Odysee at https://odysee.com/@GadgeteerZA:4/overview-of-the-irc-real-time-chat:2?r=515TnKdvdv3jk94hmbJ2443NXHia7iQP

#technology #socialnetworks #alternativeto #IRC #social

This seems the perfect place to ask this question.

Is there any decentralized and/or federated platform, maybe a part of the fediverse as an alternative to mainstream and centralized platforms like ebay, amazon, aliexpress, mercadolibre, etc...?

Cross-posted from here.

Surf the internet like a chad with rss.

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News Flash, Gnome Podcasts, LibreWolf + Privacy Redirect firefox extension.

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News Flash

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Gnome Podcasts

I think this is a pretty good setup for anti internet addiction without missing out on stuff you like. Avoid wasting time jumping into social media rabbit holes by using alternative frontends for the web browser. the setup is just two RSS applications and Librewolf.

Apps; News Flash, Gnome Podcasts. Librewolf + Privacy Redirect firefox extension. GTK theme; Material-Black-Mango

A few days ago I started using RSS again. I decided to use something other than liferea to suit the look and feel of my desktop environment. ended up using rss for everything; including Youtube, the podcasts I listen to, Twitter (using Nitter RSS), Peertube and Lemmy. Funnily enough I haven't used it for blog articles.

Yes, the headline has decentralized and messenger in the same sentence. Sounds good, doesn't it?

We are all in love with decentralized social topology, aren't we. But to make society reasonably decentralized, we need to remodel more than one level of it. I would like to bounce around some thoughts that may help establish a multilayer model of decentralized society.

::: Longwinded

1. Assumptions.

1.1. I use communications as an example of social activity that is a key to all other processes.

1.2. I assume that a decentralized network of heterogeneous communities is a good model for human society that we need now, as the all-crisis unfolds and neither democracy nor (even less) capitalism can offer any constructive approach.

1.3. I assume that the minimal provisions for an individual must include the right to participate in more than one community at the same time, the right to opt-out peacefully at any moment and the right to form a community (and participate in the network) on an equal basis.

2. Layers

2.1. "Fediverse". What we now see as fediverse is an implementation of communications pattern, where instances of various services can be associated with specific communities and their local users considered community members. Federation protocol provides a routine way to regulate interactions with other communities.

2.2. "Community Intranet". To control their collective memory, their policies/rituals and their boundaries, communities need to have control over the physical infrastructure of their "village intranet". It applies mostly to "natural" (local) communities, while "virtual" ones may need a trusted and neutral virtual hosting environment. The control should not, however, influence individual participation in remote communities.

2.3. "NetCommons". To keep the information flowing, society needs a non-owned, collectively managed transmission backbone. We can draw analogies with watershed management that is a known example of advantages and shortages of the commons approach.

2.4. "Platform Cooperatives". Economic (and, effectively, political) control of the means of production is a key to stability of the ecosystem. Thus, decentralized ecosystem of user cooperatives provides cohesion to the whole multilayered model. Every user becomes a member of the co-op(s) operating their community(ies) infrastructure. Community co-ops then form the "NetCoooperative", managing and maintaining the backbone systems and providing support, R&D and exception handling to communities in need.

3. Essential question is, whether such a model is comprehensive and complete enough to provide scaffolding for an attempt to implement proof-of-concept project.

Questions and comments welcome.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/63067

> Hello! > > I recently had issues with my self-hosted instance of Nextcloud so I started looking for an alternative to it. > > I would like something that could allow me to make a local network of shared files between devices I choose, if that makes any sense. > > I stumbled upon Syncthing but it doesen't seem what I had in mind: I understand that it replicates folders between devices, but I am looking for a way to distribuite files between machines. > Again, like Nextcloud but without a central server to rely to. > > Do you know if something of that sort exists? > > Or if you have any other solution? > > Thank you. > > P.S. I am posting it here because it seems like some sort of self-hosting, but maybe I will cross-post it to the decentralized comunity.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/62292

> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/62291 > > > Performance + Fixes ready to enjoy :) > > > > Public Domain Movies Key: > > > > QmR9f898E2Y6H4rUqUQkB5g615wht1q4fxCPfZzxA4jXaR > > > > https://github.com/ZorrillosDev/watchit-desktop/releases > > > > More info: > > > > - Visit our site watchitapp.site. > > - Read our post in dev.to. > > - Check out the roadmap to future features. > > - Get in touch with us in gitter, reddit or watchit:matrix.org. > > - See our FAQ for frequently asked questions. > > - For help or bugs please create an issue.