Submitted 3 weeks ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to selfhosted@lemmy.world
Briar is a messaging app designed to be used by groups of people to allow for secure and censorship resistant communications.
This technically isn’t self hosted in the strictest sense but I think it is still relevant.
Seems pretty similar to Jami except that it lacks the iOS and desktop clients that Jami already has.
Don’t use Jami. It is a security nightmare and unreliable.
Could you link me some resources for that? I may need something to demonstrate that to others.
This project runs on Tor. You are effectively hosting a Tor site.
Not at all. You’re effectively using a messenger that can only receive messages when your phone has an internet connection because briar doesn’t have servers. Also the connections are made through the Tor network, which hides metadata
Briar does not require an internet connection. It can send messages over Bluetooth and WiFi.
a messenger that can only receive messages when your phone has an internet connection
To be fair, that’s true for most messengers, even ones that do have servers.
Sort of I guess
Why does it matter?
tuxec@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
After a loot of research and testing different tools (Briar, Jami, Simplex, Session), I ended up using XMPP (Snikket). The call quality is good, had E2EE, Self-hosteable
lemonuri@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
I don’t know why this gets downvoted. Xmpp is my solution as well. Lightweight, selfhostable and federated, it’s just a great solution. Briar is good as well and probably one of the best dungeo solution if your are an activist/journalist. But it wilk eat your battery as all p2p solutions will. Is you host your own xmpp server at home, that’s really as secure as it will get imho.
tuxec@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Yeah… I’m a bit surprised by the downvotes also. I just shared my experience without saying anything bad about any apps. Anybody is free try any tool they want until they find the one that fits their need. Thanks for the support 🤝
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I will never not grin slightly at the name XMPP.