▶ Breaking
Meta is ending end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs on May 8 2026. Here's what to use instead → // Discord leaked 70,000 government IDs. Why we built this → // OpenDescent v0.5.7 released: run the network on your own relay. Download → // Normal life deserves privacy. // Meta is ending end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs on May 8 2026. Here's what to use instead → // Discord leaked 70,000 government IDs. Why we built this → // OpenDescent v0.5.7 released: run the network on your own relay. Download → // Normal life deserves privacy. //
Encrypted / Peer-to-peer / Open source / 分散型メッセンジャー
Chat, call, and build communities without anyone watching. End-to-end encrypted, peer-to-peer, with nothing between you and the people you talk to.
AES-256
Message encryption
1Typed
I love you
2Encrypted on device
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YOU- PEER- PEER- THEM
3Delivered
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01 Plaintext leaves device never
02 Hops peer-to-peer, never servers
03 Only recipient can decrypt
Breaking / 2026-04-24
Meta is ending Instagram DM encryption on May 8. Every message you send will be readable: by Meta, by advertisers, by law enforcement. Here's what to use instead.
Why this exists
For years, the internet sold you "private" messaging, then walked it back quietly: buried the setting, scanned "for safety", trained an AI on your chats. OpenDescent starts from the other end: nothing to roll back, because there was never anyone in the middle in the first place.
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Nothing in the middle
Your messages travel peer-to-peer, encrypted before they leave your device. No company sees the plaintext. There isn't a server to scan, subpoena, or monetise, because there isn't a server at all.
02
No account, no ID
No phone number. No email. No government ID. Your identity is a cryptographic key on your device, backed up by a 12-word phrase you keep. There's nothing to leak, because nothing was ever collected.
03
Encrypted by default, period
Not opt-in. Not buried. Not "rolled back in May." Every message, call, and file transfer is end-to-end encrypted by default, always, with no toggle and no regional exceptions.
The flagship
Every text, voice note, and file you send is encrypted on your device with AES-256-GCM, using ephemeral X25519 keys so that even if a key is ever compromised, past messages stay private. Forward secrecy. No plaintext in transit. No plaintext at rest on anyone's machine but yours. There is no central server.
X25519 DH + HKDF + AES-256-GCM + Ed25519 signatures
did you see the deadline moved?
yeah finals week, great
🎙 voice note · 0:08
sending the notes now
🌐
True peer-to-peer
Messages travel directly between devices. No middle server relays, stores, or can read a thing. Circuit relay and NAT hole-punching keep it working even on hostile networks.
libp2p / KadDHT / DCUtR
🧬
Cryptographic identity
An Ed25519 keypair is your account. No phone number. No email. No password. Back it up with a 12-word mnemonic, recover on any device, ever.
Ed25519 / BIP39 / TOFU pinning
📞
Voice & video calls
Crystal-clear WebRTC calls with DTLS-SRTP encryption. Direct connections whenever possible, TURN relay fallback when needed. Your calls don't touch anyone else's infrastructure.
WebRTC / STUN / TURN
🏛
Community hubs
Text channels, voice channels, roles, invites. The things a Discord server has, without a server. Hubs are peer-replicated and can't be shut down from the outside.
Categories / Channels / Roles
👤
Dead Drops
Onion-routed anonymous posts with proof-of-work spam prevention. No identity attached, no metadata trail. For the conversations that need to exist but shouldn't be traceable to a person.
Onion routing / PoW / Daily key
📡
P2P live streaming
Go live to your community. Viewers redistribute chunks to each other mesh-pull style (think BitTorrent, live) so the stream scales without a single point of failure, or a single point of surveillance.
WebRTC DataChannels / Mesh-pull
Every message you send runs through the same three steps: a fresh X25519 key agreement, an AES-256-GCM encryption, and an Ed25519 signature before it ever leaves your device. Here, you can watch it happen with your own words.
There's no special "encrypted mode" to toggle. This is the only mode there is.
› Type anything on the right
› Watch the keys agree, the message encrypt, and the signature sign
› Watch it route peer-to-peer to the recipient
› Watch it decrypt, only on their device
Your messages are encrypted before they leave your device.
Route YOU- PEER- PEER- THEM
01
You make a key
Open the app and it generates a cryptographic key on your device. That key is your identity. We never see it. You back it up with a 12-word phrase. That's the only recovery path.
Ed25519 / BIP39 / local only
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You connect peer-to-peer
Add friends by username or invite link. Your device talks directly to theirs through an encrypted mesh. If NAT gets in the way, circuit relay and hole-punching handle it. If they're offline, the message waits as a sealed blob that whoever holds it cannot read.
libp2p / KadDHT / circuit relay v2
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Only the two of you can read it
Every message is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with a fresh key each time. Only the recipient's device can decrypt it. Not us. Not Meta. Not anyone pretending to be law enforcement.
AES-256-GCM / X25519 / forward secrecy
| Capability | Instagram DMs | Signal | Discord | OpenDescent | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End-to-end encrypted by default | Ending May 8 | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| No phone number required | Required | Required | Required | Required | Never asked |
| No central servers | Meta-owned | Signal-owned | Discord-owned | Meta-owned | Peer-to-peer |
| Community hubs & channels | No | Limited | Yes | Groups only | Yes |
| Data breach risk | Active target | Metadata | 70k IDs leaked '25 | Lawsuit pending | Nothing to breach |
| Open source | No | Yes | No | Partial | MIT licensed |
| Can be forced to hand over messages | Yes, routinely | Metadata only | Yes | Metadata only | Nothing to hand over |
💬
Friends & family
Your group chat, your inside jokes, your birthday plans: none of it is advertising data. Send text, voice notes, photos and files without anyone scanning what you said to mum.
🎮
Communities
Game with your friends, run a study group, build a fan community. Hubs have channels, roles, and voice, like Discord, but without the ID uploads and the data breaches.
📰
Journalists & sources
Dead Drops let sources share information anonymously with onion routing. No metadata. No trace. No identity attached. No subpoena can pull something we don't have.
🌐
Organisers & activists
Coordinate across borders without a central authority that can be pressured, subpoenaed, or shut down. The network has no off switch. It exists as long as its users do.
📂
100% open source
Every line of code is public on GitHub. Audit it. Fork it. Build on it. MIT licensed.
🚫
Zero data collection
No analytics. No tracking. No telemetry. We don't know who uses this app, by design.
🛡
Nothing to breach
There's no central database. Your data lives on your device, encrypted at rest.
🔌
No kill switch
No central server to unplug. No company to pressure. The network exists as long as its users do.
★ Founder
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v0.5.7 // Windows 10+ // SHA-256 verified on GitHub Releases
Windows x64 macOS: Soon Linux x64
Is OpenDescent really free?01
Yes. The app is free and open source under the MIT license. An optional Pro subscription unlocks larger file transfers, unlimited hubs, and supports the project, but every core feature (messaging, calls, community hubs, encryption) is free forever.
Do I need to give you my phone number or email?02
No. OpenDescent requires no phone number, no email, and no account. Your identity is a cryptographic keypair generated on your device. You back it up with a 12-word mnemonic phrase. That's it.
How is OpenDescent different from Signal?03
Signal is end-to-end encrypted but runs on central servers and requires a phone number. OpenDescent is peer-to-peer (messages travel directly between devices, with no central server in the middle) and requires no phone number or account. OpenDescent also supports Discord-style community hubs, which Signal does not.
What happens to my messages if I lose my phone?04
Your 12-word mnemonic recovers your identity on any new device. Messages are stored encrypted on your devices, so if you lose the device without a backup, the messages are gone (nobody else has a copy, including us). That's the point of end-to-end encryption.
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