https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Chat 2026-04-05T07:10:38Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.39.13 https://wiki.extremist.software/index.php?title=Chat&diff=67945&oldid=prev 2018-09-04T20:28:25Z

<p>basic page for tracking chat apps</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==== Requirements ====<br /> * free open software<br /> * stored messages<br /> * encrypted<br /> * realtime chat<br /> * api/extensible<br /> * bridges to Slack and IRC<br /> * Emojis and Gif support<br /> <br /> ==== Alternatives ====<br /> * [https://open.rocket.chat Rocket.chat can be tested on their official instance]. E2E encryption is in the process of being [https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/10094 finalized via this Pull Request].<br /> * [https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/riot.html Riot] includes e2e implementation and account verification per device. [https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/2349 Lacking threaded messages].<br /> * Mattermost<br /> * [https://nextcloud.com/talk/ Nextcloud Talk] is available in the space from https://cloud.noisebridge.net, but does not support federation to these other services. API is still being developed.<br /> * SILC (end to end encrypted, free and open source, distributed or [multiple servers can share messages between each other providing message coherency to users more robust than &quot;federated&quot; services like Mastodon. Heavily audited and vetted by w00w00, Coverity, OpenBSD developers and more over the course of a decade+. PFS can be tuned to have arbitrarily slow or fast key rotations, messages from users are encrypted *from* the server eavesdropping as well, especially with use of private message signing.)<br /> * PSYC2 (end to end encrypted, distributed, free and open source, multiple client implementations, the lead developer is excellent, worth looking into more deeply)</div>

James