I had fun writing this one..

#privacy #nostr #p2p #selfhosting #linux

https://blog.timapple.com/posts/the-great-digital-exodus-when-privacy-pirates-force-us-back-to-our-caves-but-with-better-wi-fi/

An #E2EE messaging app unaffected by #ChatControl

* App: https://chat.positive-intentions.com/
* Code: https://github.com/positive-intentions/chat
* Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/positive_intentions

How it works: https://positive-intentions.com/docs/projects/chat

TLDR: I'm working on a #P2P messaging #webapp. Webapps are generally not considered secure because of the nature of serving statics over the internet. This is correct, but not a limitation of this project. (#selfhosting options: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/docker-ios-android-desktop).

As a webapp, I can provide the app with zero-installation and no-registration. The app is only using (local-only) browser storage (specifically #indexedDB). So in a P2P interaction, the traditional concept of "the cloud" is just the physical devices connected over #WebRTC. This allows for things like P2P authentication: https://positive-intentions.com/blog/security-privacy-authentication.

Future:
I'm aiming to create the most secure messaging app out there... (more than #Signal, #Simplex, #threema, #session, #deltachat, #bitchat, etc). I know I have a long way to go to get there. The UI is fairly ugly for the average user, but I think the mechanics are working as expected. I think #JavaScript is underrated in what you can do with it. I'm actively investigating improving the #encryption approach further to align to how the Signal protocol works (currently using a #DiffieHellman key-exchange).

Support:
In the age of #ChatControl, I would like to keep this project #opensource, but open-source funding is not working for me. I don't want your donations (but don't let that stop you) because it isn't sustainable for a long-term project. I have so far only experienced grant-funding rejections. I have no idea what I'm doing in trying to get funding for this project, so any support/advice is appreciated. In recognition of the project in its current state not being able to get funding... (sorry) I will have to go #closedsource (which I'd like to avoid because it undermines several #cybersecurity claims I'd like to make). I don't accept collaboration on the project because this would make tough decisions like going closed-source also immoral.

Keet : la rivoluzione della #comunicazione #P2P
#privacy #sicurezza #messaggi @sicurezza

https://webappsmagazine.blogspot.com/2025/07/keet-la-rivoluzione-della-comunicazione.html

Finally, I can chat with my rat friends over Bluetooth

**bitchat-tui** — Secure, anonymous, P2P Bluetooth chat in your terminal.

Communicate off-grid with E2E encryption, public channels, and direct messaging.

Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

GitHub: https://github.com/vaibhav-mattoo/bitchat-tui

We've just published a new blog post about access control in decentralised systems!

https://p2panda.org/2025/07/28/access-control.html

The post includes details about the design and implementation of our new p2panda-auth crate, along with a discussion of some of the technical challenges that arise when trying to solve access control in a decentralised context.

Profiter d'une seedbox au meilleur prix, partage #p2p , coffre fort et #vpn pour 3€ par mois!
https://www.seedbox.fr/aff.php?aff=6222

This is brilliant! Over the past decade I've seen numerous discussions about #DNS on the #Autonomi peer-to-peer network (formerly #MaidSafe / #SafeNetwork).

Nobody mentioned this idea until MaidSafe founder David Irvine this week.

I think he just might have cracked #decentralized DNS. Different, but probably better. See what you think:

https://github.com/dirvine/four-word-networking/tree/main#four-word-networking-human-readable-ip-address-encoding
#p2p

This weekend wraps a replatforming of the #stigmerge CLI onto a high level #filesharing API. A necessary step towards a #Transmission like interface. Experimenting with #tauri now.

A few bug fixes happened as well :)

https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge/releases/tag/stigmerge-v0.5.7

Need to fix #rust docs.rs, they're not building yet

While yours truly has been head deep into the 1.0 work on QUIC Multipath rather than keeping you entertained with posts here, a lot of cool things happen that haven't been mentioned. Here are 11 projects from the awesome list today, using #iroh to make cool #p2p applications.
https://github.com/n0-computer/awesome-iroh
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There’s a new site as a hidden service by @champiaf that beautifully explains #Freenet / #Hyphanet for #Tor users:

http://hlubzcgg2mqr3gvxfeotarmxtaz4m3mdedyqmkvtu2zevhb56pkfpjqd.onion/

Some exciting #stigmerge updates to share!

All stigmerge peers are now seeders -- there are no #leechers in official stigmerge releases. Sharing is caring! #veilid private routing mitigates the privacy hazards normally associated with sharing content over public networks directly.

Peers gossip with each other _constantly_, advertising themselves and discovering new neighbors -- and they store these contact lists in the #veilid DHT like a pheromone trail. So even when an original seeder is long gone and goes offline -- if just one of its last-known neighbors is online, future travelers still have a chance to join a live swarm of active peers.

Fetchers can balance downloads among multiple peers, gravitating towards the most productive ones.

It's also super-easy to run stigmerge from an OCI container now (#Docker or #Podman as you like).

Check out the updated README for more details -- and the 0.5.6 release to try these new superpowers out for yourself!

https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge
https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge/releases/tag/stigmerge-v0.5.6

Jack Dorsey made an open source peer-to-peer encrypted Bluetooth messaging app called Bitchat

https://squeet.me/display/962c3e10-2090e4d5-b586566430113843

#BitChat, un réseau de messagerie #P2P
#Dorsey : "une communication éphémère et cryptée sans dépendre d'une infrastructure #Internet"

https://fr.euronews.com/next/2025/07/08/le-cofondateur-de-twitter-lance-une-application-de-messagerie-fonctionnant-sans-connexion-

#P2P
J'était complètement passé à côté du fait que Freenet s'appelle désormais Hyphanet. (Et je vous explique Freenet pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas).
https://sebsauvage.net/links/?7IhDCQ

Et une réflexion m'est venue : Quel dommage que les navigateurs n'implémentent pas nativement IPFS (comme l'avait fait Brave à une époque). Ça aurait été beau.

(Et je rêve encore du mini-serveur multifonctions intégré au navigateur Opera avant sa merdification)

Vous connaissez un équivalent d'Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, etc... en peer2peer ?

J'ai fais vœu de piraterie, et à part DL tous les albums et chansons une par une, y a pas vraiment d'options...

Disclaimer : Attention ne téléchargez pas de voiture, on m'a dit que c'était mal.