I really wish there was a fully decentralized/encrypted chat system that doesn’t piggyback off Tor.
Major issues I’ve found when attempting to make something like this include…
Reliable P2P Routing without Tor is basically impossible.
Users hate decentralized identifiers. Appending a public key to a name makes the identifiers look terrible.
That said, I thought of some decent solutions to some other problems…
Spam protection is difficult, but is not impossible if a simple “enter this password to add me” system is implemented.
Censorship is required by some platforms, and is doable in the form of opt-in global censor-lists. On platforms where censorship is required, force an opt-in.
I really wish there was a fully decentralized/encrypted chat system that doesn’t piggyback off Tor.
Major issues I’ve found when attempting to make something like this include…
That said, I thought of some decent solutions to some other problems…