[HN Gopher] Berty - an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messen...
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       Berty - an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messenger with no
       central server
        
       Author : HelloUsername
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2025-10-20 11:03 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (berty.tech)
 (TXT) w3m dump (berty.tech)
        
       | jqpabc123 wrote:
       | I imagine the number of simultaneous connections is strictly
       | limited.
       | 
       | For example, can multiple people message one person at the same
       | time?
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       | I'm thinking of local communication among groups of co-workers.
        
       | compressedgas wrote:
       | Reminds me of https://briarproject.org/
        
       | thomastjeffery wrote:
       | There is too much communication on what Berty _doesn 't do_, and
       | not enough on what it _does_.
       | 
       | So _can_ it send messages over a network? Do messages have to be
       | sent over a direct connection to the recipient 's hardware? If
       | messages can be carried by an intermediate, then who, when, and
       | how? It would help a lot to answer these questions more
       | immediately.
        
       | MarsIronPI wrote:
       | What's different about this one compared to Briar, Tox,
       | Scuttlebutt, Cabal.Chat, NomadNet or Chitchatter (to name a few)?
       | 
       | IMO peer-to-peer chat is a mostly-solved problem. I think the
       | problem that needs addressing is not lack of peer-to-peer
       | technology, but lack of adoption. People (mostly) don't care, so
       | they (mostly) won't switch unless you strong-arm them in some way
       | or another, or convince them to care. And either way, if they're
       | not close to you, you basically have no influence on them, so you
       | _still_ end up needing to use non-free, non-private modes of
       | communication. Network effects are rough.
        
       | alan_n wrote:
       | Does this support group chats? How does it do encryption if so?
        
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