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submitted 2 years ago by Gritty@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've seen a lot of talk about privacy minded chat clients on here but a search did not bring up Tox. I have been delving into the Gemini protocol ( https://gemini.circumlunar.space/) and a few folks there have listed Tox for contact. Anyone have thoughts on this?

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[–] unnecessarily@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If you’re interested in the concept behind Tox, I’d recommend taking a look at Jami. Tox’s development has been sporadic at best and I wouldn’t trust it to be a viable solution long-term. Jami runs with the same concept but has multi-device support and is backed by/part of the GNU project so it probably has more staying power. That being said, it’s still (like Tox) not very user friendly at this point.

[–] Yujiri@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whoa, I had no idea Jami had multi-device support! I wonder how they pulled that off in a P2P setting. Last I checked they didn't even have offline messaging (not even in the way Tox does).

Do you happen to know where the Jami protocol spec is? I couldn't find it on their website...

[–] unnecessarily@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Looks like it's still a work-in-progress.