Retroshare allows you to establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service.

Get the software @ https://retroshare.cc/

The RetroShare ID to connect with is:

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Make sure to select "Hidden node (over tor)" when creating your node. See screenshot, otherwise your incoming connections may not work.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The dev of retroshare has interesting projects: https://saud.wtf/projects/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The dev was definitely ahead of their time with RS. The platform is pretty fun and engaging, as well as truly decentralized.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Nice!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

both sides need to confirm Add Friend -> paste ID , works with version 0.6.7

(new identities can be created later)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

last time I checked no hardcoded seednodes nor tor hidden services avail.

So you are the only participant in the whole p2p network atm and people wont know your IP and cant "find" you. Later on with +100 nodes a DHT will do the trick.

It is possible to bootstrap a p2p network from scratch (without mining incentives)... and I hope people get interested before the next ddos. I used retro a lot yrs ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When you set up retroshare for the first time you can select "Hidden node (over Tor)" and it will automatically create a hidden service for you, no need to do it yourself

I see someone requested a connection to me but it looks like they are not configured properly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yep. “hidden node (over tor)” lets you connect directly. I can see your user name is “gekut” and your onion address is hygzlzl2hxznxfxgzl3sghovnub5pjf555op72evqagihszkhtnz2bad.onion

It tells me you are offline atm.

RS is the most censorship resistant p2p net out there. You can create true friend2friend networks and thats end of story for the rats.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That is odd, the RS node is online. Can you post your RS ID so I can try to connect to you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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will be gone tomorrow. tor hidden service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

ok this works

we are connected. you created a forum: monero town ... I can see it.

you invited me to a chatroom;

desktop seems to work flawlessly with tor hidden service setup option.

Maybe some android testing needed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

RetroShare is some really old tech man. look at his github dates

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Monero and Tor are really old tech as well, but like Retroshare there is nothing like them around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I mean old like not maintained, the debian packages are for v9. Tor and Monero have active devs. I think we're gonna struggle with any system that's pure peer-to-peer, servers solve the offline person issue. But I like you and would support the idea. I tried to connect, but you're offline. You use Matrix? [email protected] , we can coordinate when you'll be online to connect retro

Btw can servers seeding be setup? Like if its just run on a VPS as a client, wouldn't that solve the offline issue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

he's online; make sure you use version 0.6.7 [latest appimage 2024-02-10]

Server setup is easy and would help storing offline mail. In the end it's about rebuilding models of trust. Trust can be managed very fine grained, like in RL. Its much different than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

did you add ?

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