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Berty Technologies
Company blog · berty.tech/blogsystemssecurityprogramming
Berty Technologies is the company blog at berty.tech, writing about systems, security and programming. Since 2020, 21 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Berty: Privacy-first messaging app”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (24) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Website of Berty Technologies, a privacy messenger that works over Bluetooth without internet. HN commenters mostly suggest it as an alternative app; the linked posts cover how Berty works (IPFS) and its readiness.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 24 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We build tools to enhance communication freedom
Most-linked posts?
- Berty: Privacy-first messaging app7 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2020-10-19
- /3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-07-20
- Berty – an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messenger with no central server3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-21
What Hacker News says?
There's https://berty.tech/ as well. Not sure if it's as mature yet though ( https://berty.tech/blog/berty-not-war-ready/ )
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on “Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran”Submitted Berty: Privacy-first messaging app as a story · 95 points
HN discussionThat is what https://berty.tech is for.
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on “Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks”Submitted Berty – an encrypted and offline peer-to-peer messenger with no central server as a story · 42 points
HN discussionhttps://berty.tech/
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on “Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging”Submitted Berty is a peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt is Bluetooth (Low Energy), yep. https://berty.tech/features
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on “Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging”Submitted Berty, Libp2p and Bluetooth Low Energy (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCheck out https://berty.tech for direct off network communications when you do not have internet.
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on “Briar: Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging”Submitted How to encrypt your life in 10 minutes (2020) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMaybe these? https://olvid.io/en/ https://berty.tech
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on “Signal says it won’t compromise on encryption”It doesn't seem to be fully reliant on BLE. From the docs [1]: > It is possible to fully use the Berty Protocol without ever accessing the Internet: create an account, add contacts to it, join conversations and send messages as long as there are Berty users within a Bluetooth range. [1] https://berty.tech/docs/protocol/#direct-transport
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on “Berty: Peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access”https://berty.tech/messenger
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on “Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network”These are all worth keeping tabs on. Ethereum: https://status.im/ Loki: https://getsession.org/ Gun: https://iris.to/ IPFS: https://berty.tech/
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on “Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy”> Earth has multiple governments. Most governments are highly centralized. No oxymoron. But you wouldn't say that the governing of Earth in total is centralized (e.g., the UN (with their black helicopters/s)). Going back to my link: > As its name implies, decentralized systems don’t have one central owner. Instead, they use multiple central owners, each of which usually stores a copy of the resources users can acces…
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on “Is Web3 Bullshit?”> In practice if you want to share family photos with your family do you upload those photos to a third party like a social media site or a cloud provider for all your family to access? That is centralized: an agreed upon location for everyone to access. As there are multiple places where the family photos can be posted (Facebook, 500px, Google, etc), that demonstrates that the web is decentralized. What it may not…
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on “Is Web3 Bullshit?”Signal alternatives that are open source and cross-platform (at least Android and iOS compatibility): https://jami.net/ https://berty.tech/ https://cwtch.im/ https://simplex.chat/ https://status.im/
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on “Signal is secure, as proven by hackers”There is also https://Berty.tech
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on “Briar Desktop for Linux”Then you can go off network... https://berty.tech
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on “Signal TLS Proxy”I'm not sure if Cootch is federated, like Matrix, or peer-to-peer. I assume the first, if Tor is being used? Berry also sounds similar, although it is not released yet: https://berty.tech/
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on “Cwtch: Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol”or https://berty.tech/features
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on “Testing Bitchat at the music festival”I says it in the home page: Open Source. ... read it, fork it, improve it. https://berty.tech/
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on “Berty: Privacy-first messaging app”Good contributions already in other answers. Here are two more messengers. 1. https://status.im 2. https://berty.tech
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on “This is Fine: Optimism and Emergency in the P2P Network”If I'm understanding properly Cubbit is not based on some blockchain solution. The coordinator decide where files goes and the cell works as storage unit. This solution is distributed but no decentralized. https://berty.tech/blog/decentralized-distributed-centralize... At least for storing a file I don't have to mine a coin. /s
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on “Show HN: Cubbit- P2P distributed cloud storage without blockchain”There's also Berty https://berty.tech/features/
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on “A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth”How about Berty? https://berty.tech/features
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on “A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth”You might be interested checking out Berty then: https://berty.tech/blog/how-berty-works-ipfs/
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on “Jami: Share, Message, Call freely and privately”I like Session[1]. It's snappy, simple, and built on an onion network like Tor. Their private group chats can handle something like 20 people but I believe that this will expand in the near future. Plus they expressed interest in using Arweave[2] as a decentralized storage option, which seems cool to me. I am also interested in Berty[3] and Iris[4], but those aren't really "ready" yet, despite being cool tech. [1]:…
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on “Poll: Switching from WhatsApp”I hope https://berty.tech will be awesome
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on “Poll: Switching from WhatsApp”
