Hey everyone.

I make Peersuite, an opensource free communication platform.

It’s private by default, there’s no sign-in or email collection.

It’s peer-to-peer, there’s no server, after discovery you are connected directly to your friends my AES-GCN encrypted WebRTC channels. It forms a mesh and identifies superpeers. Because there is no server, in order to save your data between sessions, you can download your workspace into a password encrypted file. Happy to answer any questions.

FEATURES:

  • chat with images, PMs, channels, and file send
  • group audio/video calling
  • screensharing
  • kanban board
  • whiteboard for diagrams/flowchartswith PNG export
  • collaborative document editing with formatted PDF export

The best way for self hosting is docker, its on dockerhub as openconstruct/peersuite. You can also download desktop versions from the github or use on the web at https://peersuite.space/

github - https://github.com/openconstruct/Peersuite

  • doodledup@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 days ago

    It’s not a Discord alternative if it doesn’t have servers and doesn’t look anything like the Discord UI.

    • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      23·
      9 days ago

      It’s worth noting that Discord misuses the term “server” to mean a community. When you create a Discord “server”, they aren’t booting up a machine just for you. So the lack of servers in this project has nothing to do with the ability to create groups of channels with shared moderators that represents a community.

      • doodledup@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 days ago

        Sure, terminology is confusing here.

        But this concept of communities and especially channels is exactly what I like about Discord. It’s their main concept. You can’t call Signal a Discord alternative either because it has call, screenshare and chats. It’s just a completely different UI concept.

        • BakedCatboy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          9 days ago

          Right, but this does have communities - they’re just called workspaces. The screenshot literally shows the equivalent to a Discord “server”. You’re getting confused by the correct usage of the term servers because this project doesn’t have backend servers

          • doodledup@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 days ago

            It’s P2P. How can these workspaces be equivalent to Discord servers? I’m confused. Also why are they called “workspaces”? Discord is tailored towards gamers.

            • verdigris@lemmy.ml
              1·
              8 days ago

              From my understanding, currently the lack of a persistent superpeer makes a long-standing community unrealistic without someone remaining constantly connected, but once that’s implemented it would just be a persistent workspace. Publish the link in a centralized location for your project and bam, you’ve got the equivalent of an official discord server.

              What functionality do you think is missing?

              • doodledup@lemmy.world
                1·
                8 days ago

                Don’t get me wrong. This software looks great in terms of features and functionality. I might give it a try. What I’m saying is that the concept is too different from Discord to be able to call it an alternative to replace Discord with. The way servers and channels in work in Discord is what makes Discord so unique and why I still use (this piece of shit corporate greedy garbage).

                • verdigris@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  8 days ago

                  So it sounds like the lack of multiple text channels is the main missing feature? I haven’t used it myself yet so I’m assuming those don’t exist, but the concept of a server seems to be pretty one-to-one with a persistently hosted workspace.

          • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
            1·
            9 days ago

            I’m finding it confusing as an old fart that they can’t distinguish the terminology even thou they’re on the Fediverse.

            Amazing 😁

      • doodledup@lemmy.world
        3·
        8 days ago

        Are you done? Is it your life’s mission to visit every threat of mine and write that? This threat is about a software and Discord. You don’t even know me. What are you on about?!

        Besides, your claims are not even true. I have never supported Nazis. You just have a personal grudge against me (some rando on the internet) probably because I said some capitalistic views somewhere that you disagree with. I don’t even know. Your link doesn’t work.

        Just block me if you don’t like me and move on…

        Just a heads up you don’t need to give a shit about this person’s opinion

        Also, isn’t that what a Nazi would say? I don’t say personally attacking shit like that about people.