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
    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

      • 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
        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.

                • verdigris@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  7 days ago

                  lol okay then I’m pretty mystified. Seems like all of the major features of Discord will either be directly replicated or have functional equivalents.

                  • Nora@lemmy.ml
                    1·
                    6 days ago

                    It’s not as pretty. You have text channels, but they’re literally just text channels. There’s no reactions. or fun gifs. TBH It might be refreshing to not have this stuff for a bit.