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cabal

a private chat platform empowering friends and communities to connect on their own terms·cabal.chat

Cabal is a private, peer-to-peer chat platform for friends and communities that works offline and does not rely on central servers. Devices connect directly to each other, messages are end-to-end encrypted, and the project uses a subjective moderation system with no central admins. It is built and maintained by volunteers as a community project with no corporate ownership, and it is based on an underlying protocol called Cable that can be implemented in any programming language.

What it's for

private community chatoffline messaging with later synccensorship- and surveillance-resistant communicationdecentralized peer-to-peer group chat

Features 10

end-to-end encrypted private messages
multiple protocol implementations (nodejs, Erlang, in-progress Rust networking)
peer-to-peer decentralized chat swarm (no central server)
public cabal join key for entering a public chat
resilient to outdated hardware and long-term software changes
secret joining keys to control who can join a cabal
subjective moderation system with no central admins
syncs messages when reconnecting with peers
underlying open Cable protocol implementable in multiple languages
works offline with local chat history

At a glance

open source

TypeDesktop app

DeploymentInstalled (local)

Forfriends and communities, communities facing discrimination or safety concerns on other platforms

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