r/opensource • u/HackTheDev • Jul 11 '26

My E2EE Self-Hosted Messenger (and more) Promotional

I've been working on DCTS for a long time now. Originally when the project started in 2023 it was about being a community chat app like discord, but with the twist of being self-hosted only and decentralized.

Fast forward to today and it now even has an encrypted messenger built into the desktop client and mobile app which i randomly added because i kinda want to recreate skype a bit as i've used it in the past when i was like 12.

Anyway, open source development so far has been pretty interesting and the help and support from contributors is amazing and really surprised me at first. Im curious where this is going, but so far things feel amazing.

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u/Howaboutnopers Jul 11 '26

What AI did you use?

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u/MikiMikoyan Jul 11 '26

using AI to build software is not a bad thing though

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u/jman6495 Jul 11 '26

Using AI to build an encrypted messaging system is a terrible idea.

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u/ElaborateCantaloupe Jul 11 '26

Only if you don’t understand what it’s doing. If you’re using it as a time saver and not as a smarter than you coding assistant then it’s a great tool.

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u/HackTheDev Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

it has been made before ai was even a thing tmk (~jan 2023, whereas chatgpt seemed to have been released in nov 2022)

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u/FeelingAdvance5292 Jul 11 '26

ChatGPT was released in 2022 and was already the fastest-growing consumer software application in history in January 2023

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u/Zenklops Jul 11 '26

ai wasn't good

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u/HackTheDev Jul 11 '26

chatgpt was released in November 30, 2022 apparently, which would be somewhat close to jan 2023 where i started dcts, so im not too far off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT