Chitchatter by jeremyckahn
Secure peer-to-peer chat that is serverless, decentralized, and ephemeral
About Chitchatter
From the project's README at github.com/jeremyckahn/chitchatter. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
Chitchatter is a free (as in both price and freedom) communication tool. Designed to be the simplest way to connect with others privately and securely, it is: Fully open source (licensed under GPL v2) Peer-to-peer Whenever possible, otherwise a TURN server is used to ensure reliable peer connection End-to-end encrypted (via WebRTC) Ephemeral Message content is never persisted to disk on either the client or server Decentralized No API server required. Chitchatter works completely without an API server - all that's required for basic functionality is availability of GitHub for static assets, and public WebTorrent and TURN relay servers for establishing peer-to-peer communication. An optional API server is available to provide enhanced connectivity features, but users can always choose to use Chitchatter without it. Embeddable Self-hostable
Chitchatter uses Vite. The secure networking and streaming magic would not be possible without Trystero. File transfer functionality is powered by [](https://github.com/jeremyckahn/secure-file-transfer). Status [ for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
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