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Dev tools · April 30, 2015

FRIENDS

Like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source

FRIENDS launched on April 30, 2015 with 7 votes, #1,325 of 3,600 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

MOOSE Team

Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users. It's a work in progress, but give it a go if this sounds interesting! :-) Note: It requires a `git clone` and `npm install` at the moment. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and this is not an anonymous system. See below for more details. We use the term 'secure' here to mean that we do not use plaintext transports. If you use Github, you're already logged in when you open…from moose-team.github.io

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