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@ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social · 2 weeks ago

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

ProfessorBoop

@ProfessorBoop@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@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/

Jonah Aragon

I'm Getting Into Mesh Networks... (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc. However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on central service providers. The internet is a mesh, but

Richie McCoy aka Dr Deej

@UrbanCityCowboy@mastodonapp.uk replied · 2 weeks ago

@ProfessorBoop I tried the paper message thing. It's amazing.

ProfessorBoop

@ProfessorBoop@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@UrbanCityCowboy I would love to know more about how you used it and other ways that can be used. What came to my mind was to take down a printed advertisement from a community bulletin board, change the QR code for their website to an encrypted QR code then place the new copy back on the board so someone else could retrieve that message at a later time without broadcasting any metadata over monitored networks. This would make it much more difficult to know who is talking to each other.

🌱🏴‍🅰️🏳️‍⚧️🐧📎 Ambiyelp

@ambiguous_yelp@veganism.social replied · yesterday

@ProfessorBoop @UrbanCityCowboy

Simplex also has a qr scanner so you can smt similar: post a group link to a printed page somewhere locally and as long as you dont need to rotate the link it will continue to work. Optionally you could periodically rotate the link and refresh the poster

#FLOSS #PSA #Simplex

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