I recently stumbled upon Keet, which is a peer to peer messaging app with video calls and file sharing.
This app has a lot going for it:
- The user experience is really good
Free and open sourceEDIT: the UI of Keet in closed atm, but the underlying P2P building blocks are open- Privacy friendly (no datacentre, server or middleman between you and the people you are talking to)
- Better quality since there’s no throttling of traffic
- No file size limit
I’m baffled that this app seems like a well kept secret, so I just wanted to share it with you guys.
To me, peer to peer technology seems really interesting because it addresses the root cause of many of the harms that plagues the modern day internet: surveillance, platform silos, the market dominance of multi-national tech-conglomerates, energy usage of datacentres, etc.
What do you think? Can P2P be the solution to these problems?
I want to communicate with others in a way that is privacy friendly, gives a good user experience and gives me control of my data. Tox seems good, but most of my friends and family have iphones, and none of the clients support that. Today they use Whatsapp, Messenger, etc. Signal would be a big improvement, but as far as I can tell it is still centralized and wants your phone number.
Maybe XMPP can work, I will check that out.
P2P caught my interest because of the possibilities that opens up when you remove the middle-man/server (even better call quality, no file size limits). But it doesn’t have to be P2P - I’m just a fan of “local first”, decentralization and democratization of technology in general.