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?

It’s encrypted, peer to peer, FOSS, and requires no signup.

    • GrittyOP
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      22 years ago

      Thanks for the insight! No offline messages is a big drawback, however aTox from Fdroid seems to have the service running all the time unless you kill it. Battery drain aside I think this could help. No multi device support is a big one though.

      Yeah Gemini is cool. Big gopher hole right now for me.

    • @jackalope@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      By “doesn’t support multi-device” you mean it doesn’t have syncing between devices?

      That’s kind of a big deal for me.

  • Joe Bidet
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    32 years ago

    I cannot find that page again as it as obviously been fixed since, but i remember looking at Tox a long while ago and running away scared and laughing at the same time.

    On some installation page (on a wiki!!) it used to recommend (from memory) something like “wget --ignore-certificate https://blah.blah/blah.sh | sudo sh”

    My immediate reaction was that i wouldn’t take seriously anything related to security from ppl recommending such insanely sloppy and insecure methods…

  • @Lynda@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    Many of the top tier messaging platforms are trying to solve today’s problems and vulnerabilities. I like that Tox does not require a huge centralized infrastructure (only DHT) and is P2P. Tox is very fast and works well over Tor too. However, P2P, DHT, and limited infrastructure has it’s own challenges.

    I think Session and Status.im are better positioned.

  • @unnecessarily@lemmy.ml
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    22 years ago

    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.

  • CHEF-KOCH
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    2 years ago

    Maintainer stole money from the project ever since then it died with it + no audit.

    Was way before Matrix and others but no one uses it because distrust.

    • GrittyOP
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      22 years ago

      So besides the management you’re saying the software itself could be viable?

  • @drone621@lemmy.ml
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    02 years ago

    I tried using this, admittedly a while ago, for two months. It flat out could not deliver messages reliably to someone in the same household. Sometimes messages would arrive weeks after being sent, and sometimes nothing would arrive at all. Maybe it’s changed since, but I doubt it.