TryQuiet/quiet
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A private, p2p alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor & IPFS
9 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 7 comments · first 2023-07-28 · latest 2024-01-16
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…content)? What if you're a private IPFS network, with no shared nodes with the public network (like https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet ). What if you didn't use bitswap, the file transfer protocol (Filecoin doesn't use bitswap, and mostly…
comment by dannyobrien · 2024-01-16 · in Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space -
…the open issue and there are links to proposed designs in there if you'd like to give feedback! https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/issues/1504 > how is name collision handled? in a large community, you're bound to have a few people who want…
comment by holmesworcester · 2023-09-14 · in Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor -
…is its own Node module, but we don't have a good CLI for it yet and it's not a current priority: https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/tree/develop/packages/back... > How far have you attempted to scale this up? We've run tests with 200-300…
comment by holmesworcester · 2023-09-12 · in Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor -
…FAQ! I've been meaning to write one for BitTorrent Bleep too, which is also interesting prior art. https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/wiki/Quiet-FAQ#how-quiet-c...
comment by holmesworcester · 2023-09-12 · in Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor -
…to get hacking on, and we'd love the help. :) Here are the instructions to build Quiet desktop: https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/blob/develop/packages/desk... And here are some good first issues! https://github.com/orgs/TryQuiet/projects/3…
comment by holmesworcester · 2023-09-12 · in Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor -
…you just use onion services. They list some more reasons here, mostly just for privacy/anonymity: https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/wiki/Quiet-FAQ#why-does-qu...
comment by Bu9818 · 2023-09-12 · in Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor -
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Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Torstory by sschueller · 2023-09-12 · 256 comments
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Quiet – A private, P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFSstory by simonpure · 2023-07-30 · 1 comment
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…building Quiet, an alternative to team chat apps like Slack and Discord that works as you describe: https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/#readme > Granted, sending a message would require all parties to be online at the same time, but there…
comment by holmesworcester · 2023-07-28 · in Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it