RetroShare
Secured and decentralized communication system
Secured and decentralized communication system. Offers decentralized chat, forums, messaging, file transfer.
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-2.0 license
- Active community (2k GitHub stars)
- Written in C++
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
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