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Has anyone used briar ? (lemmy.today)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it safe ? Does it do everything it says it do ? If so how is it popular yet ? Like does it have any catches or something ?https://f-droid.org/packages/org.briarproject.briar.android/

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I've been using it for comms with some friends and family when we're out of conventional network range. It works great, the pairing process is a bit of a barrier for securitu-muggles, but it works perfectly.

My only annoyance is that I can't run the mailbox program on a regular Linux/docker server.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Strange, isn't it? I wish they would set up mailboxes in a way that would allow me to host it for a few family members like I would a Jellyfin server

Edit: Here's a guide on how to run it as a service

https://retiolus.net/posts/briar-mailbox-server-cli-installation-guide/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

its possible to run it on a raspberry pi tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

AFAIK it's only available as an android application. But I haven't looked into compiling it locally or anything. It might he possible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-mailbox

go here and scroll down to "Server CLI version".

ive been running it for a few months now and it works great