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/
There are some seriously toxic fuckheads in this thread. Thanks for your effort so far, I look forward to seeing where your project ends up!
Thanks!
Any reason you chose github vs codeberg? Just wondering. Gave your project a star regardless. Nice work!
I’ve been on github for like 8 years now, familiarity, plus the build tools are nice, github actions builds the docker images for me now
This looks very promising, thank you very much! Going to fully test it out tomorrow.
Is there anything planned to have a persistent server option (self-hosted)?
Yes, I plan to create a node server for permanent rooms. It will allow you to name the server, which then acts like a superpeer and keeps the workspace open and saves progress every 10-30 minutes.
Wonderful! The possibility to spontaneously hop on the server to look whether a friend is online or not is very important at least for us compared to the necessity of having to set up the room each time (which would require us to coordinate beforehand that we want to hangout in a voice channel).
cool in the same area as Retroshare
That was my first thought.
Keep up the good work, it’s always good to have alternatives. But please at least fix the link in your post, it’s giving a bad first impression.
thanks!
It’s peer-to-peer, there’s no server
The best way for self hosting is docker
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Yes, it takes an initial connection for discovery. The peers need to know how to find each other.
If there’s no account, how do I “log in” to my community or whatever
If you are hosting you send them the room code and a password. You can save a workspace and restart it later, so if you had an active chat it would reload automatically when you imported the file
That’s no what I’m asking. If I open the site and create a workspace, then close the window, how do I get back into my workspace?
Just log back in with the room code and password.
It doesn’t contradict by definition. So ipfs is also decentralized yet you will need to run a client /server. So the client is also the server. Allowing you to connect to a mesh decentralized system. Just like torrent is also both a client and a server.
It’s html and javascript, the release comes with loose chromium files, ffmpeg binary and a 190MB executable. The link typo hasn’t been fixed in hours, they don’t link to the github, they misuse terminology, etc. and it’s version 0.3.
That’s a no from me.
You should ask for a refund.
That’s fair, the project is about a month old, the electron releases will get an installer for some platforms.
Yeah it’s an early version and I have no doubt that you guys will make it a lot neater, and it seems like a nice project. I just think it breaks several basic rules of privacy and security oriented programming, which is why I don’t think it’s a good fit for this community just yet.
Noted. Thanks for the reralistic input
You should try out something that utilizes the normal system webview instead of electron that just bundles chromium.
Check out tauri
Tauri webview doesn’t support WebRTC, would have preferred that. Using system webview would be super iffy because of WebRTC support.
Ahhh interesting. I haven’t worked with webrtc so never ran into that!
The link typo hasn’t been fixed in hours,
Whoa, hey, they’re not paid on-call. Give it a few days.
I’ve been babysitting my granddaughter, just got on the laptop.
How dare you
Is this open source? Otherwise this feels like a honey pot.
completely! https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite
Asked the same question I was gonna, so I did the googling.
https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite
AGPL
Kinda makes sense that honey pots show up here, idk there was another post the other day about some anonymous file sharing thing and it also seemed either a honeypot or just an amateur project which is okay in many cases but not when it’s about cryptography.
It’s fairly amateur I guess, but I’m not rolling my own cryptography or anything.
This needs to be widely known. I didn’t test all the functions yet, but if this works, this is big!
Everything works!
And revolt was right there being all open source and stuff
Revolt uses a server.
Revolt is not E2EE, h fortunately.
How do you think matrix feels.
But it’s not decentralized
Go tell 'em! Why have alternatives if we can just put all our eggs in one, holey, basket?
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That’s so cool, but wouldn’t everyone need automat port forwarding/opening like UPnP IGD / PCP to initiate connection? Not everyone has this enabled
Nah it uses https ports which are ususally open
Not trying to shill, but seems like a perfect opportunity to integrate Tailscale for network access and then use the funnel feature to connect to peers.
I’ll look into it. currently using trystero-torrent.
As good as tailscale is, I do so loathe it. It does make things easy, but I have to trust a 3rd party with my traffic and for me thats just no bueno.
Heard of Headscale?
You can run your own, or community run, headscale server technically.
Yet you trust your isp, curious
Assumption on your end. I dont trust the ground I walk on.
The website gives a 404 error
I removed the dash at the end. Guess it was a typo
I’ll spin this up in docker and check it out tomorrow
Let me know what you think!
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.
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.
Regardless, working great! It has many features that other discord alternatives don’t. I’ll be using it and following development closely!
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Libre Software? Push-To-Talk?
Yes and no, push to talk is on the roadmap, but haven’t implemented it yet.
