discourse is an open-source community chat.Various of the turnkey options above also allow you to self-host, plus there are Mike Hoye divulges Mozilla’s evaluation of some options. Principle it should be hard for adversaries to spy upon. Keybase, Wire, Wickr and (partially) Riot claim to be host-proof, so in If you just want something efficient for your purposesĪny of those will work, and they offer varying degrees of guarantees about not Some of the features of the social network in terms of telling you not to forget birthdays, Or, dunno if it fits here, but look at this attempt to provide the Similar, a group chat that could be shoehorned into being social. Groupware version of the wire chat client. Mobilize has particular emphasis on community management for NB Facebook pages need to be public to integrate. Group, “a calendar, chat, polls, a database section, a photos section, a filesĪlso integrates “Feeds, Facebook Pages, Slack, Google Drive, Github, Trello, Email.” Groups is a freemium mail group services with, for each It is still presumably prone to unaccountable American politics tantrums.Ĭool addition: Discohook, Webhook notification from Netlify to Discord Thing hosted on a 3rd party server) which means a slightly lower barrier to Of their jurisdiction’s wacky geopolitical tantrums.ĭiscord is like a “fun” themed Slack, (i.e. Million Slack channels of low activity) and it is hosted by a third party with Requires people to learn how to turn on notifications, and you end up with a Its UX is unsatisfactory for ad hoc groups (signing on is hard, and it Towards workplace organising than other chat programs. Slack is a communication platform somewhat more oriented Now you are responsible for your own security. It’s sort of like its more famous cousin Slack, apparently? I do not know anything about their security history, but they are hosted in the USA FWIW. Stackoverflow teams is goal-oriented Q&A for teams. See Matrix Offers Red Pill to Slack Users Matrix is positioning itself to fill this niche. Slack, which seems to be the aspiration for nearly everything else here.Įlement is the flagship modestly-secure chat system for Matrix. Reputedly end-to-end encrypted chats run by a fancy hipster dotcom.Ī quick perusal seems to indicate it is attempting to be the good bits of It seems to be the dominant force in community-run servers at the moment.ĭo not be confused by the similarity of name to the commercial discord, below. Platform which you can install on your own server. # technology # P2P # decentralized # socialnetwork # privacyĬurrent version: 0.6.There are turnkey technical solutions designed to do this for various use cases. It installs on Windows, Linux and MacOS desktops, and on Android mobile. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service. It’s a bit like your own private secure Facebook and is actually great for younger children to participate safely. Being P2P it does not require any servers or central services to operate – you connect to, and via, your friends directly, completely out of site of Big Tech. ‘Onion routing’ is used for anonymity and needless to say you don’t need your real-world credentials to register. The devs are also known, and it uses well known PGP encryption which you share directly with your friend to get authenticated. This is similar to Utopia, previously shared, with regard to functionality and peer-to-peer operation, but unlike Utopia this one is fully open source, is not blockchain based, and starts out with only connecting to your known friends.
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