Keet and the potential of P2P technology
Keet and the potential of P2P technology
Keet is a peer-to-peer chat application that allows users to communicate directly with each other. 100% end-to-end encrypted. Never on a server.
I recently stumbled upon Keet, which is a peer to peer messaging app with video calls and file sharing.
This app has a lot going for it:
- The user experience is really good
- Free and open source
- Privacy friendly (no datacentre, server or middleman between you and the people you are talking to)
- Better quality since there's no throttling of traffic
- No file size limit
I'm baffled that this app seems like a well kept secret, so I just wanted to share it with you guys.
To me, peer to peer technology seems really interesting because it addresses the root cause of many of the harms that plagues the modern day internet: surveillance, platform silos, the market dominance of multi-national tech-conglomerates, energy usage of datacentres, etc.
What do you think? Can P2P be the solution to these problems?
I am entirely down for P2P socials, and have been ever since I stumbled across Retroshare some 15 years back.
Edit: oof, I can tell you why Keet will never catch on.
Crypto integration.
I have immediately lost interest.
You wouldn't even guess this would be on the Keet homepage, but the developers can't help themselves. They just see dollar signs.
As your app grows, Holepunch lets you evolve into a business without compromises. With Bitcoin Lightning and USDt micropayments built-in, it's easy to implement and use powerful paid features in apps. Peers control their own data, including how it’s bought and sold.
"Peers control their own data"
I really hate how "sovereignty" has become a dogwhistle for "sell your data to us." And they make it as easy as possible to sell yourself out, irreversibly, for mere pennies. Maybe that's the fantasy: since "code is law" in Cryptoland, get somebody to sign over their identity with code.