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Forum posts are deleted after 12 months, according to the documentation. Forums: Just like a normal forum, but decentralized.Posts can be deleted after a set amount of time (according to the retroshare documentation on readthedocs.io, 4 months) or can be kept indefinitely (I think this may have ramifications if someone wants to totally delete something from a channel but another node chooses to hold on to it indefinitely.

The creator of a channel can post some media (audio, video, text, whatever) and subscribers can view and comment on it (if commenting is enabled).

Channels: It's like a personal soapbox.

As far as I can tell, e-mail messages don't get cleared out. Useful if you want to have slower, more information packed conversations with others or send files that won't expire, as chat messages get cleared out every so often.

Broadcast Chat and Chat Rooms: I rarely used IRC in the past but I think this feature is similar to that.

Direct Messages: the usual talking one-on-one with someone, just like text messaging that we do a lot these days.

After resolving that, our computers found each other without a hitch.Īfter doing some more exploration of the features, I conclude that Retroshare is well-suited to being a social media platform for very close friends, without a server in between. I had some trouble connecting to their computer at first, but it turned out it was because he was on an unsecured network. Overall, I find Retroshare to be a viable platform for connecting to friends in a decentralized way.ĮDIT : I finally convinced one of my friends to try it out, even if just for a moment. I don't really know how well it works for long distance nodes. Maybe Retroshare's speed was an issue of the past, because I haven't had any serious connectivity issues trying to contact other nodes.then again, it could be because the nodes I connected to were nearby to begin with. I didn't get the chance to try out the 'Channels', 'Forum', and 'Links' tabs yet, unfortunately, but I have a hunch that those tabs would be very useful for those who like sharing things with their friends. It allows users to chat to every single node they are connected to, chat with only select nodes, create alternate identities, send email-esque messages to certain nodes, and share a folder of files with certain nodes (shared directory), among other things. It takes a bit of browsing and prodding around to learn everything Retroshare has to offer. The design of the GUI is quite nice, although first-time users may feel overwhelmed by the options. It could be just me, since this was my first time managing certificates like this. Signing and validating the certificates, however, wasn't really clear to me. Exchanging them was easy, using online expiring paste services (I used Hastebin and Ghostbin for this), although any method you can think of to send a block of text will work. The certificates is probably the hardest thing to manage with Retroshare. After about 30 minutes of messing around, here are some preliminary impressions I had. Retroshare: friends not included! If you want to know what this application can do, you'll need some friends! Or you can be like me, forever alone, and set up two computers and try it out. Comment on files and spread them to your friends.

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Subscribe to channels and automatically download the latest files. Decentralized forums are censorship resistant by design. When you have an Internet connection, Retroshare will automatically sync forums with your friends. You can read and write forum posts offline.

Only your direct friends might learn which files you download. Your privacy is protected with anonymous tunnels. This makes it possible to share big files with 1GB or more. Retroshare uses swarming similar to BitTorrent, to accelerate the download. Share files with your friends or with the whole network. Retroshare can store encrypted messages on friends nodes to deliver messages while you're offline. Send encrypted messages to other members of the network.

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Make free and secure calls with the VoIP plugin. Use distant chat to securely chat with friends-of-friends. Express your emotions with the rich smiley set. Discuss with various people in chat rooms. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication. RetroShare is a open source cross-platform, private and secure decentralized communication system.