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Re:Berty: The privacy-first messaging app by jhoechtl on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:08AM (#33694097)
Is there anything comparable which doesn't require a smartphone? On the laptop and runs Linux?

I don't trust the large closed hardware blobs on my smartphone.

ps: does anything technically prevent berty from being used as an application on a computer?

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Re:Berty: The privacy-first messaging app by giphyman on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:13AM (#33694173)
in beta still but https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/ is worth a look
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Re:Berty: The privacy-first messaging app by tecleandor on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:29PM (#33695263)
Well, in fact they have a CLI client ( that I haven't tested ) [1] and their site says they're going to be available also for Mac, Windows and Linux.

https://github.com/berty/berty

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Re:Berty: The privacy-first messaging app by brokenmachine on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @12:40AM (#33715653)
Matrix/Element is great. https://matrix.org/clients/
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Re:Berty: The privacy-first messaging app by jhoechtl on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:19AM (#33770630)
I understood that P2P is delivered by the Pinecone overlay network which is in the makings and none of the available clients yet provide P2P communication?
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