Your identity is a key
An Ed25519 keypair, generated on your machine and encrypted at rest behind a PIN. No email, no phone number, nothing to verify and nothing to leak. A 24-word phrase brings it back if you lose the device.
Encrypted, self-hosted messaging with the aesthetic of a better era. Your identity is a key you hold, your server is a machine you own, and there is no company in the middle of either.
Servers, channels and roles like Discord. Self-hosted like TeamSpeak. End-to-end encryption like Signal. Owned by whoever runs it, like IRC. One program, no subscription, no terms of service.
An Ed25519 keypair, generated on your machine and encrypted at rest behind a PIN. No email, no phone number, nothing to verify and nothing to leak. A 24-word phrase brings it back if you lose the device.
A Farder server is a program on your computer — a spare laptop, a mini PC under the desk, a $5 VPS. It holds your community's data because you decided it should, and it answers to nobody else.
Put a server behind a relay and members never learn each other's IP — or the host's. The relay only forwards packets; it never stores your history. You choose per server, and the app tells you plainly which kind you are joining. How relays work →
DMs are sealed between the two devices with X25519 and AES-256-GCM. The server stores ciphertext it has no key for, and neither the host nor the relay can read a word.
Text channels, categories, roles and permissions. Voice with push-to-talk, screen sharing, replies, reactions, polls, giveaways, events and reminders. Familiar on purpose.
Tahoma. Luna Blue. Raised buttons and a real title bar. Computing was more honest when the window told you what it was, and none of this costs a gram of privacy.
A normal channel trusts the server with its contents. An encrypted channel does not. Messages are sealed on the sender's machine with MLS group encryption — the same family of cryptography behind modern secure messengers — and the server stores ciphertext it cannot open, search or hand over.
Forward secrecy is bounded by how often a channel refreshes its keys, not absolute — and a member who joins today cannot read what was said yesterday. That is the trade an encrypted channel makes, and the app says so when you create one.
The client is themeable down to the colour of a button, and themes are plain CSS files you can copy and edit. Don't take our word for it — this page is running the client's own themes. Pick one and watch the site repaint.
Your choice is remembered on this device only — it is stored in your browser and sent nowhere. In the client, themes go further: every colour is a variable, and a new theme is one file in a folder.
Every privacy product has a boundary. Most of them put it in a footnote. Here is ours, in the same size type as the good news.
Farder Desktop Client — in development.
No binaries yet: they ship when a release is stable enough to be worth trusting. Until then you can build from source — the whole thing is on GitHub, including the parts described above.