Retroshare allows you to establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail… Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service.

Get the software @ https://retroshare.cc/

The RetroShare ID to connect with is:

ABBoJ5fsnoFayyBIJYYlRaXLAxQ3CbybJPUM1BTbdmcS+IjL8xLcXwEFZ2VrdXSQRAAAAAImlmh5Z3psemwyaHh6bnhmeGd6bDNzZ2hvdm51YjVwamY1NTVvcDcyZXZxYWdpaHN6a2h0bnoyYmFkLm9uaW9uBAMK/p4=

Make sure to select “Hidden node (over tor)” when creating your node. See screenshot, otherwise your incoming connections may not work.

  • hfond
    3•10 months ago

    last time I checked no hardcoded seednodes nor tor hidden services avail.

    So you are the only participant in the whole p2p network atm and people wont know your IP and cant “find” you. Later on with +100 nodes a DHT will do the trick.

    It is possible to bootstrap a p2p network from scratch (without mining incentives)… and I hope people get interested before the next ddos. I used retro a lot yrs ago.

    • @tusker@monero.townOP
      4•10 months ago

      When you set up retroshare for the first time you can select “Hidden node (over Tor)” and it will automatically create a hidden service for you, no need to do it yourself

      I see someone requested a connection to me but it looks like they are not configured properly

      • hfond
        3•10 months ago

        yep. “hidden node (over tor)” lets you connect directly. I can see your user name is “gekut” and your onion address is hygzlzl2hxznxfxgzl3sghovnub5pjf555op72evqagihszkhtnz2bad.onion

        It tells me you are offline atm.

        RS is the most censorship resistant p2p net out there. You can create true friend2friend networks and thats end of story for the rats.

          • hfond
            2•10 months ago

            ABDLXxNGkxHi0faNVlwm1nOkAxSDipxJtDsn4Oac3ngNBymUNOaU9QEFaGZvbmSQRAAAAAImljVtYnF5a3Iyc2tnYmR2emVwamdubXJibjVvZXJqZGNzbDN2cHdkbHh6amF0NWV2c3hocGdhZHlkLm9uaW9uBANeGnU=

            will be gone tomorrow. tor hidden service.

            • hfond
              2•10 months ago

              ok this works — we are connected. you created a forum: monero town … I can see it.

              you invited me to a chatroom;

              desktop seems to work flawlessly with tor hidden service setup option.

              Maybe some android testing needed.

              • hfond
                2•10 months ago

                tx for connecting. [ ID had a line break ] You can now d/l from my local radio archives folder. see [files] section.

                See u next time.