I like how people are recommending a bunch of FLOSS messengers now, its an opportunity to check out underrated projects like I just a few minutes ago learned about the FLOSS project Quiet (https://tryquiet.org) from a discord community trying to relocate.

The website says its all E2EE P2P with tor built in, channels like slack/discord, no email or phone number required. Unfortunately no quantum resistant encryption on the roadmap so I still would recommend SimpleX for general purpose instant messaging but Tor-by-default and P2P are genuine advantages over Simplex

If you found this post interesting you might also be interested in these decentralised encrypted messengers with various pros and cons compared to eachother:

Cwtch
https://cwtch.im
http://cwtchim3z2gdsyb27acfc26lup5aqbegjrjsqulzrnkuoalq5h4gmcid.onion/

Briar
https://briarproject.org/

Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/

#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #Deniability #Meshtastic #Briar #Cwtch #SimpleX #Quiet #P2P #Tor #Slack #Discord

Interested in collaborating on #p2p web tech but don't want to deal with Discord's ID verification? Come join our #matrix channel instead!

https://matrix.to/#/#agregore:mauve.moe

I like how people are recommending a bunch of FLOSS messengers now, its an opportunity to check out underrated projects like I just a few minutes ago learned about the FLOSS project Quiet (https://tryquiet.org) from a discord community trying to relocate.

The website says its all E2EE P2P with tor built in, channels like slack/discord, no email or phone number required. Unfortunately no quantum resistant encryption on the roadmap so I still would recommend SimpleX for general purpose instant messaging but Tor-by-default and P2P are genuine advantages over Simplex

If you found this post interesting you might also be interested in these decentralised encrypted messengers with various pros and cons compared to eachother:

Cwtch
https://cwtch.im
http://cwtchim3z2gdsyb27acfc26lup5aqbegjrjsqulzrnkuoalq5h4gmcid.onion/

Briar
https://briarproject.org/

Meshtastic
https://meshtastic.org/

#FLOSS #E2EE #PSA #Privacy #Security #Anonymity #Deniability #Meshtastic #Briar #Cwtch #SimpleX #Quiet #P2P #Tor #Slack #Discord

Interested in collaborating on #p2p web tech but don't want to deal with Discord's ID verification? Come join our #matrix channel instead!

https://matrix.to/#/#agregore:mauve.moe

I want to be part of a flat collective/network of folks / orgs working together to provide resilient e2ee data storage using free software.

Like a file backup / object storage federation of sorts.

I want it to be scalable, i.e. folks and orgs who have spare storage capacity can contribute this capacity to the collective, effectively increasing the collective's total storage capacity. The collective should gracefully handle nodes dropping off or quitting the collective, and re-joining.

The API should be well-known, preferably something like S3, so the collective/network easily integrates as a backend for existing software.

I think there should be some way to 'balance the books' so to speak, to avoid selfish behavior like a participant providing 3GiB of storage and using 3TiB.

The balancing can be in-software, e.g. each participant gets an identity which the software uses to identify how much the participant contributes and utilizes across all their nodes.

The balancing can also be out-of software, through a member system or similar.

Would be nice with a social aspect.

Is there already something like this?

What software would be good for building something like this?

@deuxfleurs would #garage fit this use case?
If I understand correctly, Garage can scale to many nodes in many locations/zones, but 3-4 zones (one of which can be a hot spare) is recommended. If a garage cluster consists of 50 zones with 150 nodes total, will chunks be spread across zones in a way that isn't limited by low-capacity zones? Does the total storage capacity of the cluster depend on whichever location has the least capacity?

Another option I found earlier is @peergos, but I'm fairly lacking in knowledge about the project. Being p2p, would that fit this use case better?

#techCollective #democracy #privacy #digitalIndependence #e2ee #anarchism #p2p

I want to be part of a flat collective/network of folks / orgs working together to provide resilient e2ee data storage using free software.

Like a file backup / object storage federation of sorts.

I want it to be scalable, i.e. folks and orgs who have spare storage capacity can contribute this capacity to the collective, effectively increasing the collective's total storage capacity. The collective should gracefully handle nodes dropping off or quitting the collective, and re-joining.

The API should be well-known, preferably something like S3, so the collective/network easily integrates as a backend for existing software.

I think there should be some way to 'balance the books' so to speak, to avoid selfish behavior like a participant providing 3GiB of storage and using 3TiB.

The balancing can be in-software, e.g. each participant gets an identity which the software uses to identify how much the participant contributes and utilizes across all their nodes.

The balancing can also be out-of software, through a member system or similar.

Would be nice with a social aspect.

Is there already something like this?

What software would be good for building something like this?

@deuxfleurs would #garage fit this use case?
If I understand correctly, Garage can scale to many nodes in many locations/zones, but 3-4 zones (one of which can be a hot spare) is recommended. If a garage cluster consists of 50 zones with 150 nodes total, will chunks be spread across zones in a way that isn't limited by low-capacity zones? Does the total storage capacity of the cluster depend on whichever location has the least capacity?

Another option I found earlier is @peergos, but I'm fairly lacking in knowledge about the project. Being p2p, would that fit this use case better?

#techCollective #democracy #privacy #digitalIndependence #e2ee #anarchism #p2p

The "Walkaway Stack" video is online now! ✨

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J3FLC3-walkaway-stack/

It's a VERY SHORT fragment of the series I did recently at @offline in Berlin.

Hopefully it's useful as a little intro into the p2p space and it's gnarly problems!

#p2p #localfirst #mesh

The "Walkaway Stack" video is online now! ✨

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/J3FLC3-walkaway-stack/

It's a VERY SHORT fragment of the series I did recently at @offline in Berlin.

Hopefully it's useful as a little intro into the p2p space and it's gnarly problems!

#p2p #localfirst #mesh

#PeerWeb - #Decentralized Website #Hosting | #web #p2p https://peerweb.lol/

Interested in #decentralization and #p2p ? Want to contribute to #OpenSource software?

Check out our "good first issue" project board and see if something sparks your interest.

https://github.com/orgs/AgregoreWeb/projects/5

Other really cool #p2p things to see:

🐧Composing capability security and CRDTs
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SXSAML-brassica-chat-with-goblins-ocapn/

🐢 Willow - Protocols for an uncertain future
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/CVGZAV-willow/

🐬 qaul.net - Internet Independent Wireless Mesh Communication App
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VRTVUU-qaul-mesh-messenger-app/

🐞 Multi-relay chat messaging & cryptographic identities with Delta Chat
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport/

🐛 iroh p2p connections
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/T9ACNE-iroh_p2p_connections/

🐭 Reticulum-rs: Porting the Trustless Mesh to Rust
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KF7STF-reticulum-rs_porting_the_trustless_mesh_from_python_to_rust/

#deltachat does

- no bindings to public handles/numbers

- no address-book upload

- not do public contact or group discovery

- not have critical persistent server state (!)

Social identification is private, between people though ephemeral #P2P #E2EE messages.

Servers see messages with random sender and recipient addresses, but those can not be mapped to a phone number or public handle. Servers see IP addresses. But you can use Tor, or a VPN, if you want to hide that.

It' not all bad :)

whoa, the future of computing looks bright! great work @modal @p2panda
#gtk #gnome #p2p #localfirst

whoa, the future of computing looks bright! great work @modal @p2panda
#gtk #gnome #p2p #localfirst

This is what we actually need.

@modal at #FOSDEM

#FOSDEM26 #p2p #emancipatoryComputing #SoftwareFreedom

Is there a JS or WASM-based video conferencing system?

That is, can I run something like Jitsi / Zoom *without* relying on a server? Just P2P between browsers.

#FOSS #FOSDEM #P2P

Is there a JS or WASM-based video conferencing system?

That is, can I run something like Jitsi / Zoom *without* relying on a server? Just P2P between browsers.

#FOSS #FOSDEM #P2P

Let’s take notes and exchange ideas from #FOSDEM on #Reflection (by @modal)!

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To install:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub-beta https://flathub.org/beta-repo/flathub-beta.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub-beta cx.modal.Reflection

#FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26 #p2p #Notes

🥁 Vi presento TUNECAMP!

Un mix tra Spotify e Bandcamp, ma self-hosted & decentralizzato. Pubblichi sulla tua istanza, ti ascoltano nel network globale. 🌍 Non sei un artista , no problema usalo pure come media library.

È in BETA! Giratelo ai vostri amici musicisti nerd. 🤓
📡https://tunecamp.vercel.app
🎧 https://tunecamp.scobrudot.dev/ (mia instanza)
💻 https://github.com/scobru/tunecamp

#selfhost #music #spotify #bandcamp #freedom #gundb #shoguneco #decentralized #p2p #tunecamp #artist #label #opensource #server