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

        • jerry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          Chat is Peersuite is limited to workspaces. You can only talk to people inside your workspace. I didn’t want to add accounts, and sign-ins and all those things that collect data. So when you sign into peersuite, you are only talking to the people in the workspace with you. It works entirely different and your questions don’t really apply to how it works.

        • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          There is literally no way to do performant e2ee at large scale. e2ee works by encrypting every message for every recipient, on the users device.

          At 1000 users, that’s basically a public room.

          • jerry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I haven’t had a chance to test the limits of Peersuite, but since it’s a mesh network, I don’t think it would run well with even 100 people.

          • Andres@social.ridetrans.it
            3·
            3 days ago

            @moonpiedumplings @jagged_circle I read your initial question as 1,000 active chat *rooms* (with some large number of users for each), which… seems excessive. That’s what I was referring to.

            1,000 individual private 1-on-1 chats (or group chats with 2-3 users), if that’s what you meant (and especially over a long period of time, with lots of inactive chats), seems like a more common scenario*. If that was your question, I apologize.