Peersuite p2p encrypted discord alternative

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jerrimu@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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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 peersuite.space

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iopq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This space definitely needs competition

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  EVERYTHING is encrypted in peersuite, it’s mandatory. I tried to make the UI intuitive and simple, but IDK if I’m great at it.
  
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  - ladfrombrad@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    but IDK if I’m great at it.
    
    Simples is best, hands down. Maybe some tooltips wouldn’t go amiss on your demo page?
    
    But as someone else pointed out, a link to the GitHub either in the header or footer of your demo page would be ace too. It was the first thing I looked for this morning seeing your posts and had to come back to the comments to find it 🙈
    
    Keep up the great work, and I shared between our nerd group and they have eyeballs on it. Seems a no brainer for teams collaborating online where we’ve got used of shitty Slack 🤢 Dicksword whatever.
    
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- jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Agreed. Also Discord users complain matrix isnt really a replacement because voice UX
  
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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
A couple of questions. If I was trying to keep a consistent workspace to build a community around, would it be persistent after the host logs off, and are their tools to protect it from trolls etc who discover it a workspace?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It would not be persistent. You can download a workspace to an encrypted file. I have plans to make a node.js server for workspace permanence.
  
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  - ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Thank you! I’ll be watching with great interest! Lots of potential :)
    
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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They would have to guess the roomcode and password, it’s pretty difficult to brute-force.
  
  I’m planning some sort of auth system, but not sure how I wanna do it yet.
  
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clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That sounds pretty cool! You have listed a lot of great privacy features. I’m sure you know they will likely restrict adoption, because Grandma probably won’t be able to figure it out.

It does look neat and I will give it a try.

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Hopefully gramma will figure it out, I’m a grandparent and I made it lol.
  
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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I tried to make it super easy, but I’m not a UI guru or anything.
  
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Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
@jerrimu A usability suggestion, having just tried it out - save the username and room password in the export file to make it more like a traditional chat experience. So when you import the chat file, the username and password are pre-populated along with the room name.
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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s a really good idea! Now in the roadmap.
  
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  - martinb@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I feel like saving the password in the export is a bad idea if security is your thing
    
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Dumhuvud@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

AES-GCN

Galois/Counter Node?

Also, why didn’t you drop a repository link? github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite - is it the one?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes it is, and I will add it, somehow I thought I did.
  
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themachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Well hell I may stand this up tonight. My only question is does the voice chat support push-to-talk?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Push to talk is in testing now. WebRTC changes quality automatically based on bandwidth. Its usually really good. It runs at full quality in testing ( i have like 6 devices I hook up and test). If you guys normally have a good connection, try again?
  
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  - themachine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Perhaps talking about bitrate wasn’t correct of me. After looking at this again image quality itself is actually pretty good but the framerate is a different story.
    
    To provide context, I used it to share the video game I was playing as my friends that use discord tell me they primarily stick to it for its screen sharing capability which they use when gaming.
    
    I’m not sure how to best test this and provide metrics to you if this is improvable or even something you care about.
    
    To attempt to take the connection factor out of the equation I opened two browser windows and viewed my own screen share from a different username and even then the framerate is not great.
    
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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  ptt is live on git & site now.
  
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xnx@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Sounds great! Will mobile clients be impossible due to the p2p nature of it?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m working on getting an android version up, don’t have a mac so I can’t make an IOS version. It works great in mobile browsers, I have been testing on mbile during development.
  
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surfrock66@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have been exploring self-hosted Discord alternatives and had been looking at Rocket Chat, so I am wondering what is the pitch for this versus something like that? I am very early in my exploration, of course.

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Rocket chat needs a server, and doesn’t e2e encrypt by default are this biggest differences.
  
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  - surfrock66@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ok, understood. So if you’re not online, you pretty much lose messages, or are they cached and the next time the sender is online you get them?
    
    My use case is a kid using a minecraft server and wants to talk to his friends, and we’re using mumble now, but they want “discord” and they want things like plugins that allow mgmt from the discord channels, which I would be willing to try to develop, but the model pretty much requires a server to be online.
    
    In general, I’m trying to make a small internet for my kids and their friends to have “normal” internet experiences without being on the wider internet. No youtube, but pinchflat -> jellyfin. No discord, but mumble. No google drive, but nextcloud.
    
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- kevin2107@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  P2p
  
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  - jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    yes peer to peer
    
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Can I tick a box in settings to force it to only connect to Tor Onion Services for enhanced privacy?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not currently, would love to have it working under tor though.
  
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TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My group recently switched to Matrix and so this would be a tough sell, but it seems interesting. I haven’t been a fan of Matrix and miss the ease of UI in discord, but was happy to leave with it’s direction. How would you sell it with a small group that has small, but mounting usability issues with Matrix?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Get everybody in to at least try it. I tried to make everything as intuitive as possible.
  
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thoralf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Looks interesting. Definitely needs a mobile client to become a viable alternative.

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Working on it, capacitor doesnt work because it’s webview doesnt work with WebRTC
  
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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
boss-copy-edge-food

workspace code ^^^ for anyone that wants to test it out with me. I don’t have friends to do so :(

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secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Will you package it to flathub?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I could package the electron version to flathub, I hadn’t considered that. I will read up on it.
  
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alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Do you have voice calls/group voice calls and streaming already in or in the roadmap?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Group voice and video are working fine. I’ve only tested screen share with 3 computers but if works fine also.
  
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  - alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just realized it’s on the post. Sorry for that. This looks like a solid thing, for sure. Since we’re talking, do you ever worry about people making use of the privacy features for nefarious purposes?
    
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
How quickly does it load when you’re connected to 1,000 chats, each with 100,000 messages?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You know, I’m not sure
  
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  - Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    @jerrimu @jagged_circle lol!
    I read this as a very diplomatic way of saying, "Why.. would you do that? Don't do that." 😏
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Does it use double ratchet?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No, just AES-GCN encrypted WebRTC
  
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MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Does it have voice rooms yet ?

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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Voice is workspace-wide currently, there’s no way to separate off as it stands now
  
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j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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- jerrimu@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  it uses WebRTC over https for anything, should just work
  
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