VeilidChat is a chat application written for the Veilid distributed application platform. It has a familiar and simple interface and is designed for private, and secure person-to-person communications.
Requires a local clone of the Veilid source code to compile.
For more information about VeilidChat: https://veilid.chat/
Quiet is an alternative to team chat apps like Slack, Discord, and Element that does not require trusting a central server or running one's own. In Quiet, all data syncs directly between a team's devices over Tor with no server required.
Quiet is written (mostly) in TypeScript, with Electron and React Native frontends.
While apps like Slack, Discord, and Signal use central servers, Quiet syncs messages directly between a team's devices, over Tor, with no server required.
Each group of people (Quiet calls them "communities") gets their own insular network, so that data from one community never touches the devices of Quiet users in other communities. Not even in encrypted form!
Message syncing is taken care of by a project called OrbitDB, which works like a mashup of Git, a gossip protocol, and BitTorrent; it broadcasts new messages, syncs the latest messages, and fetches files. Syncing means that users typically receive all messages sent while they were offline.
This is a free communication tool that is designed for simplicity, privacy, and security. All interaction between you and your online peers is encrypted. There is no record of your conversation once you all leave.
Serverless, decentralized, ephemeral. Peer to peer whenever possible. Explicitly designed to be self-hostable. Public and private rooms. Audio and video chat. File transfer.
Miniature, self-hosted chat server.
Harmony’s protocol is designed to be as straightforward and pragmatic as possible. We do not make attempts at creating a “universal” design philosophy which the entire protocol is forced to follow, instead implementing things that make sense as a single cohesive system. Time has proven over time over that design idealism is often a limiting factor in services. Aims to be lightweight and somewhat simple to both understand and develop for.
OnionComms is server configuration to host chat applications over Tor using onion services. Servers supported:
- Mumble
- Asterisk
- Prosody
- Ejabberd
- Ricochet
List of "only yours" cloud services for everyday needs.
User-first chat platform built with modern web technologies.
This organisation contains all of the relevant repositories for the Revolt platform.
A simple, personal chat program that runs on a single computer. No Internet, just you.
MultiChat was intended for folks that need to talk to the voices within them for one reason or another. Maybe you think better when you talk to yourself. Maybe you're a system and need to have a conversation externally. Maybe it's a handy tool for simulating social interactions ahead of time. Maybe you need a tool for roleplay, or want to write as though your characters were in a chat room. Maybe you just want to mess around. Whatever the reason, MultiChat was made to let you have that conversation.
Lightweight, no non-standard dependencies.
A fork of the Psi IM client which is actually maintained and updated. Rolling releases - as new features and fixes are added, new releases come out. Cross platform - I use it on my Linux desktops and my OSX machine for work and it's quite solid. The configuration menus are a little tricky and hard to navigate, so you'll have to go through them a couple of times before you get things set up the way you want them. Customizable - themes, fonts, et al can be tweaked. Also has a plugin system so you can install add-ons.
An open source XMPP client for Android. Supports OMEMO. Supports multiple accounts simultaneously. Uses your Google Contacts to store its contact information. Available in both the Google Play store and F-Droid.
Take control over your live stream video by running it yourself. Streaming and chat right out of the box. In general Owncast is compatible with any software that uses RTMP to broadcast to a remote server.
Self-hosted alternative to Twitch.
A multi-account Matrix client that allows you to authorize webapps to access parts of your account, designed with collaboration in mind.
A web-based admin control panel for a Matrix server. Lots of webshit involved.
- git clone https://github.com/Awesome-Technologies/synapse-admin
- cd synapse-admin/
- yarn install
- yarn build
Then tar up build/, upload it to your server, unpack it, and give it a try.
This is a really simple matrix chat client. Just for simple use but also to mess around with the Matrix protocol. You can drop into the python interpeter in the middle of a chat and poke around with the Matrix Python SDK. Uses ncurses.
A secure synchronous lightweight chatroom with zero logging and total transience. Realtime chat over Websockets. Tries to be as lightweight as possible. IPv6 enabled by default. Users are ready to go as fast as possible. Encryption enabled. Admin commands.
This is the most basic version of a self-hosted persistent chatroom. A simple chat webapp. Quick and dirty. Basic admin functionality. Push notification enabled.
Delta Chat is like Telegram or Whatsapp but without the tracking or central control. Delta Chat does not need your phone number. Uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: the existing e-mail server network. Chat with anyone if you know their e-mail address, no need for them to install DeltaChat! All you need is a standard e-mail account. Full clients for multiple platforms available.
Github: https://github.com/deltachat/
A CLI tool for interacting with the Matrix chat network. Can probably be used as a client, but it's actually designed to build other tools on top. Only uses the matrix-python-sdk module.
Dendrite will be a Matrix server written in Go. Requires Kafka (if run as a cluster of microservices) or something called Naffka (an embedded in-process workalike) if run monolithically. Requires Postgres as its back end.