---
title: "ricochet-im/ricochet: Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/ricochet-im-ricochet-anonymous-peer-to-peer-instant-messaging-aascnpnkl
source_url: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-02-14T22:53:59.890Z
updated: 2025-02-14T22:54:13.446Z
tags: ["open-source", "privacy", "peer-to-peer"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 21
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# ricochet-im/ricochet: Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 21 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Ricochet is an anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging system that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, contact list, or communications. It operates without exposing your IP address, metadata, or relying on central servers, using Tor Network hidden services. Ricochet is experimental, cross-platform, and open-source, available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@patrickwanko** · 0 upvotes

> Interesting, and it uses Tor 😀!

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