Briar is a messaging app designed to be used by groups of people to allow for secure and censorship resistant communications.

This technically isn’t self hosted in the strictest sense but I think it is still relevant.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.org
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    12 days ago

    Not at all. You’re effectively using a messenger that can only receive messages when your phone has an internet connection because briar doesn’t have servers. Also the connections are made through the Tor network, which hides metadata

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      12 days ago

      a messenger that can only receive messages when your phone has an internet connection

      To be fair, that’s true for most messengers, even ones that do have servers.