liaizon, 18 days ago

@tomjennings I see your message there. weird I just saw you just started following me here on the fediverse again, and I saw I was now not following you anymore. Did you somehow block me and then unblock me maybe?

tomjennings, 17 days ago

@liaizon

Welp, apparently I uninstalled Quiet. I used "disable app" thinking I'd just stop it from using data until I got a chance to look at it.

Check out Briar Project. https://briarproject.org/

It works, nicely. Uses TOR also but can do direct phone to phone.

With one friend used it while I was in LA and he driving to the eclipse in TX. Worked great with signal, no signal, mobile and WiFi.

tomjennings, 17 days ago

@liaizon

I worry too what Quiets "continuous liveness" requirement implies. Briar has no such issue. (Item 6 in "technical overview" on the tryquiet git page).

I suspect this is relying a persistent TOR connection to do their connectivity. That seems a bad idea.

liaizon, 17 days ago

@tomjennings yeah I was just checking it out. I have tried Briar before and had quite alot of issues with it. we tried last year with a group of 7 at an event and it worked great for 5 of the people and then two of the people just had tons of randomly dropped messages in the feed with no visible errors