Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
While I do like the idea behind a P2P E2EE chat, I believe that unless you&#x27;re willing to invest heavily into OrbitDB and IPFS, this project will stay niche at best.<p>The performance issues that come along with running OrbitDB&#x2F;IPFS on a machine, let alone a mobile device, are still significant unfortunately. Adding Electron on top of what is already a heavy-weight application is probably going to make people&#x27;s devices go brrrrr all the time. Not only that, but I would argue that for instant communication this stack might not be the best idea in terms of performance in first place.<p>Besides, the way IPFS has been (and still keeps) changing their dozens of libraries doesn&#x27;t make development particularly smooth either. OrbitDB is always behind the latest IPFS version due to all these changes that are being introduced. Hence unless you&#x27;re planning to allocate developer time on these two things as well, my guess is that you probably won&#x27;t have too much fun with your back-end.<p>The integration with Tor is another thing that will likely be a time drain for developers, as other people here already pointed out, and that will lead to even more performance issues down the line.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I really like the idea behind this project. However, I feel like the aspirations are unrealisticly high and the actual outcome might be realtively frustrating for the average end-user. Having that said, I would love my gut feeling to be proven wrong!<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m the developer of Superhighway84 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;InterPlanetary_File_System#Applications" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;InterPlanetary_File_System#App...</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrusme&#x2F;superhighway84">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;mrusme&#x2F;superhighway84</a>), a USENET-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized internet discussion system running on IPFS &amp; OrbitDB.