Cabal
p2p chat software
cabal is a place where mesh conspirators can talk about p2p topics in a p2p way
see cabal-node for the underlying database & api
chat with us:
npx cabal --key cabal://4ae5ec168a9f6b45b9d35e3cc1d0f4e3a436000d37fae8f53b3f8dadfe8f192f
Installation
git clone https://github.com/cabal-club/cabal-client.git
cd cabal-client
npm install
Usage
Start a new instance:
node cli.js --db <file path> --nick <nickname>
Connect to an existing instance:
node cli.js --key <key> --nick <nickname>
e.g.
node cli.js --key cabal://4ae5ec168a9f6b45b9d35e3cc1d0f4e3a436000d37fae8f53b3f8dadfe8f192f --nick voynich
Headless mode
This will run cabal without a UI. You can use this to seed a cabal (e.g. on a VPS) and make its data more available:
node cli.js --key <key> --seeder
Commands
/channels
display channels you can join
/names
display a list of the people currently online
/join <channel>
join a channel
/j
alias for /join
/nick <new nick>
pick a new username
/n
alias for /nick
/emote <some text>
write an old-school text emote
/me
alias for /emote
/clear
clear the current backlog
/debug <key>
debug the underlying hyperdb's keys
/help
display a help message of the current commands
/quit
exit cabal
Hotkeys
ctrl+u
clear input line
ctrl+w
delete last word in input
up-arrow
cycle through command history
down-arrow
cycle through command history
home
go to start of input line
end
go to end of input line
ctrl+n
go to next channel
ctrl+p
go to previous channel
pageup
scroll up through backlog
pagedown
scroll down through backlog
alt-[1,9]
select channels 1-9