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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Hey everyone.

I make Peersuite, an opensource free communication platform.

It's private by default, there's no sign-in or email collection.

It's peer-to-peer, there's no server, after discovery you are connected directly to your friends my AES-GCN encrypted WebRTC channels. It forms a mesh and identifies superpeers. Because there is no server, in order to save your data between sessions, you can download your workspace into a password encrypted file. Happy to answer any questions.

FEATURES:

  • chat with images, PMs, channels, and file send
  • group audio/video calling
  • screensharing
  • kanban board
  • whiteboard for diagrams/flowchartswith PNG export
  • collaborative document editing with formatted PDF export

The best way for self hosting is docker, its on dockerhub as openconstruct/peersuite. You can also download desktop versions from the github or use on the web at https://peersuite.space/

github - https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite

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[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll spin this up in docker and check it out tomorrow

[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let me know what you think!

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So far really liking it! Very high quality screenshare, will be testing with more peers tonight. I had one question: I saw elsewhere you recommended running in docker for more permanence. Does that mean if everyone leaves a room and its hosted on docker things are saved and you can rejoin? Or would the last person leaving need to export the board? Either way I'm testing more tonight, just curious.

[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks! Yeah if there's bandwidth video streams at full resolution. Currently you have to export the workspace. I'm going to build a node server for it down the road. There are still things in my roadmap before then though.

[–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Regardless, working great! It has many features that other discord alternatives don't. I'll be using it and following development closely!

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What does it do above matrix?

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

At a glance looks easier to setup, less complicated, a few more features, Kanban, Notes etc. One big thing is the P2P. Matrix needs a server to run, this is P2P.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah but it also looks like it lacks federation and support for third party clients

[–] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

federation isn't really required here since account creation is trivial and non-persistent from the looks of it. Third party clients and being a protocol are definitely pros that matrix has over this. Matrix is definitely a lot more fleshed out than this project, but even though its new it already has more to it in some ways than matrix has. It also feels way more snappy than matrix, matrix can be sluggish at times.

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[–] tobi_tensei@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

just improve the UI, rest is great

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[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Kanban is interesting, as it makes it seem like its geared towards work in some ways?

Is Documents a wiki section or a file repo?

[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah that was the plan to make it good for teams or friends. Documents is just for collaborative writing, You can create/rename/delete documents that live in storage until you print them. Importing files to edit would be a good addition.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Sweet, I've been looking for something exactly like this for my upcoming radio station. I was going to use RocketChat but man is it a pain in the ass to get it to do the things I want it to do.

How difficult is it to install, configure, and keep Peersuite up to date? Does it integrate well with websites? Would it be suitable for use as a public chat? The whole "no server" thing is concerning, especially since I'll need to be able to see a full chat history at any given moment (for moderation purposes).

[–] jerrimu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have ANY moderation tools yet. TBH probably not the best fit for you right now.

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