I don’t understand why a privacy respecting app would use discord for their community. I subscribed to their mailing list and look forward to any updates.
I also think that using the phone number to find friends, as done by signal, is really important for mainstream adoption.
Looks very promising, but probably and unfortunately will lack mass adoption
How does it work? Is this similar to Briar?
I don’t know anything about it but Berty uses the Wesh protocol. Here’s documentation from their website if you’d like to read into it.
I just tried it as I was intrigued, but it didn’t go so well.
The first thing it did was complain about not being able to connect to its notifications server, so I couldn’t enable notifications… even looked into the app permissions and there was nothing preventing it from pushing notifications.
Then I wanted to see which OSS was used and that link didn’t work. (possible license violation?)
After that I wanted to try the mode where you can communicate locally through BLE and all that. Enabling that feature causes the app to just crash when opening it.https://briarproject.org/ provides better protection of metadata and it’s already on f-droid - plus, a desktop client is coming up.
Importantly, Briar funding paints the project as trustworthy https://briarproject.org/about-us/ :
Briar has received funding from Small Media, the Open Internet Tools Project, Access, the Open Technology Fund, the Prototype Fund, Internews, the NLnet Foundation, the Next Generation Internet programme and the ISC Project.
