The original ELIZA running in an emulated CTSS environment. The setup process involves compiling a copy of the s709 IBM 7094 emulator. A copy of CTSS is then installed and started inside the emulator, and then Eliza is compiled and executed.
Signal Stickers is a community-organized, unofficial directory of sticker packs for Signal, the secure messenger. All content on this website is copyrighted by their respective owners. This website is not affiliated with Signal or Open Whisper Systems.
If you're looking for blobcats or other stuff to throw into your group chats, start here. Installation is simple, visit the site from your mobile and it'll engage Signal's installation mechanism.
This repository helps to setup a ready-to-use chatmail server comprised of a minimal setup of the battle-tested postfix smtp and dovecot imap services. The setup is designed and optimized for providing chatmail accounts for use by Delta Chat apps. Chatmail accounts are automatically created by a first login, after which the initially specified password is required for using them.
It looks like it's trying to be a Slack or Discord replacement, judging by the UI and described use cases. Claims that it's going end-to-end encrypted Real Soon Now.
GitHub: https://github.com/orgs/revoltchat/repositories
The Github org has multiple clients:
- revite
- frontend
- rvmob
And a server (backend).
MWIN (My Witty Interactive Nonsense): A simple, self-hosted, terminal-based chat room application written in Go. No installation required, just download and run! Multiple users can join and participate in the chat room simultaneously. Users can choose their own name or use the default. Self contained, has no dependencies.
Devzat is a custom SSH server that takes you to a chat instead of a shell prompt. Because there's SSH apps on all platforms (even on phones) you can connect to Devzat on any device!
Supports commands, rooms (channels?), Markdown formatting, private messages, and pseudo-shell commands.
Webxdc brings web apps to messenger chats, in a simple file format containing HTML5, CSS, JavaScript and other asset files. All authentication, identity management, social discovery and message transport is outsourced to the host messenger which runs a webxdc app container file and relays application update messages between app users, letting each app inherit offline-first and end-to-end encryption capabilities implemented by the hosting messenger.
Directory of apps: https://webxdc.org/apps/
I don't know if any of these could be used in a free-standing way or not, but it might be interesting to try.
Your AI second brain. A copilot to search and chat (using RAG) with your knowledge base (pdf, markdown, org). Use powerful, online (e.g gpt4) or private, offline (e.g mistral) LLMs. Self-host locally or have it always accessible on the cloud. Access from Obsidian, Emacs, Desktop app, Web or Whatsapp
Khoj is an AI application to search and chat with your notes and documents. It is open-source, self-hostable and accessible on Desktop, Emacs, Obsidian, Web and Whatsapp. It works with pdf, markdown, org-mode, notion files and github repositories. It can paint, search the internet and understand speech.
Poezio is a free console XMPP client (the protocol on which the Jabber IM network is built). Its goal is to let you connect very easily (no account creation needed) to the network and join various chatrooms, immediately. It tries to look like the most famous IRC clients (weechat, irssi, etc). Many commands are identical and you won't be lost if you already know these clients. Configuration can be made in a configuration file or directly from the client. You'll find the light, fast, geeky and anonymous spirit of IRC while using a powerful, standard and open protocol.
Says it can even be used without an account. Maybe link-layer chat via mDNS?
The first messaging platform operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps! The channel through which you share the link does not have to be secure - it is enough that you can confirm who sent you the message and that your SimpleX connection is established.
SimpleX is a client-server network with a unique network topology that uses redundant, disposable message relay nodes to asynchronously pass messages via unidirectional (simplex) message queues, providing recipient and sender anonymity.
Unlike P2P networks, all messages are passed through one or several server nodes, that do not even need to have persistence. In fact, the current SMP server implementation uses in-memory message storage, persisting only the queue records. SimpleX provides better metadata protection than P2P designs, as no global participant identifiers are used to deliver messages, and avoids the problems of P2P networks.
Unlike federated networks, the server nodes do not have records of the users, do not communicate with each other and do not store messages after they are delivered to the recipients. There is no way to discover the full list of servers participating in SimpleX network. This design avoids the problem of metadata visibility that all federated networks have and better protects from the network-wide attacks.
Tinfoil Chat (TFC) is a FOSS+FHD peer-to-peer messaging system that relies on high assurance hardware architecture to protect users from passive collection, MITM attacks and most importantly, remote key exfiltration. TFC is designed for people with one of the most complex threat models: Organized crime groups and nation state hackers who bypass end-to-end encryption of traditional secure messaging apps by hacking the endpoint.
TFC uses XChaCha20-Poly1305 end-to-end encryption with deniable authentication to protect all messages and files sent to individual recipients and groups. The symmetric keys are either pre-shared, or exchanged using X448, the base-10 fingerprints of which are verified via an out-of-band channel. TFC provides per-message forward secrecy with BLAKE2b based hash ratchet. All persistent user data is encrypted locally using XChaCha20-Poly1305, the key of which is derived from password and salt using Argon2id, the parameters of which are automatically tuned according to best practices. Key generation of TFC relies on Linux kernel's getrandom(), a syscall for its ChaCha20 based CSPRNG.
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.