How does pears.com, p2panda and libp2p compare?
I found pears a couple of days ago, when a fellow hacker from POuL highlighted me https://keet.io, a peer to peer chat application. They promise
No middlemen, no metadata, no surveillance, just direct encrypted chats with people you trust.
Nice try dudes. Too bad Keet is proprietary software. And I know for sure that proprietary software can’t be trusted at all.
Actually they do use a free-as-in-freedom, non copyleft library pears.com1 maintained by themselves, i.e. Holepunch, “The Peer to Peer Company”, but this will never be enough to let me trust a proprietary program is such sensitive field of applications.
I do know just a little libp2p and p2panda. I just wonder what this apparent flourishing of p2p stacks can means for the freedom of people.
- they call it “open-source” ↩︎