The pigg project continues to produce high quality releases of #p2p remote control for #raspberrypi:
https://github.com/andrewdavidmackenzie/pigg
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Tipragot has shipped https://github.com/tipragot/godot-iroh, a #p2p multiplayer extension for #godotengine based on #iroh. Here's to more games working peer to peer!
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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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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
👋 Hey #FOSS community! Need your wisdom on grant funding...
I've been developing a decentralized chat app that challenges the centralized model - think WhatsApp but with zero servers, complete privacy, and VR capabilities built right into the browser.
🔍 What makes it different:
- Runs entirely in browser (JavaScript/PWA)
- Direct P2P connections via WebRTC
- Industry-grade encryption by default
- Experimental AR/VR shared spaces
- Users own 100% of their data
The project is open-source and functional, but needs funding to:
- Improve security auditing
- Expand mobile platform support
- Develop accessibility features
- Build developer documentation
Has anyone had success with grants for privacy-focused or decentralization projects? Especially interested in orgs that value user empowerment over profit.
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Talking about trust and power in networks
A. on the subject of “security” we have a #open policy of not trusting ANY client server security at all, so this should only be done #4opens as far as possible and having limited trust in #p2p security, even though we use this, because of the insecurity of the undelighting syteams it runs on, mostly old outdated phones, built as blobs by #dotcons this simple approach gets round much of the current thinking of technical “security” ie. the is almost non at a normal use level and little real […]
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What should be closed? And what should never be?
A conversation about ideology, sociology, and the #openweb. Let’s start with a basic liberal framework:
“Most social interactions should happen in the open. Some personal interactions should remain private.”
Seems reasonable, right? That’s the position many of us think we agree on. Yet when we look at how our technology, and by extension, our society, is being built, that balance is totally out of whack. Today, more and more of life is CLOSED:
Closed apps.
Closed data.
Closed […]
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Jack Dorsey made an open source peer-to-peer encrypted Bluetooth messaging app called Bitchat
Don’t be too concerned about the Bluetooth range, as this app sets up mesh connections across multiple peers, much like how Meshtastic and Reticulum radio works. So, hopping across two or more peers will quickly extend this reach.
Bitchat is working over Bluetooth LE and the claims are that distance between peers could be as much as 300m. Certainly, for line of sight, such distances should be easy to achieve.
The plan in future seems to be to include Wi-Fi Direct as another connectivity option. I’m wondering if this could evolve in future to work something like the Reticulum network, across all sorts of protocols.
As with Nostr and other similar projects, Bitchat requires no account creation, no servers, no e-mail or mobile phone registrations, and also it has password protected channels, and even a panic mode that will clear all data in the logo is triple-tapped.
Right now, it is working on iOS devices through Apple Testflight, and an Android client is still expected to be released in the near future. As this type of app is normally easier to released for Android, I’m wondering if it was not primarily intended right now to protect the privacy of protesters inside the USA.
See theverge.com/news/701272/jack-… and the GitHub site at github.com/jackjackbits/bitcha…
#Blog, #opensource, #P2P, #privacy, #technology
Oho! Here is a new in-depth p2panda blog post!
https://p2panda.org/2025/07/09/streams-transactions-crash-resilience.html
This one is about the strategies and design ideas we’re exploring to make p2p applications resilient to critical failures, for both system- and application layers.
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Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy
Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:
You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,
Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,
Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,
Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.
And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]
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Real world tackling the #geekproblem
DRAFT
With rebooting the #openweb we run headfirst into the #geekproblem, a recurring pattern where: Technically brilliant people build powerful tools …but those tools remain socially unusable …or solve only geek problems, not the needs of actual communities. It’s not malice, often it’s idealism, but it creates a dead-end culture of endless prototypes, abandoned standards, and empty tech demos. Meanwhile, the real-world crisis deepens.The work we need is bridges building, let’s […]
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