Distributed messaging with BitTorrent Sync

If a permission-enabled filesystem was bolted on top of BTSync, this could result in all sorts of fascinating log-based applications.

Better use SyncThing[1] which is opensource including protocol specification.

There is also project Pulse [2] using syncthing as engine for something maybe similar to the linked article..

[1] http://syncthing.net/ [2] https://ind.ie/pulse/

The SyncThing project partnered with ind.ie and started rebranding itself a few months ago. SyncThing and Pulse are the same thing, even though the old domain is still up. It's a terrible name change, imho.

You might be thinking of Heartbeat [1]? It's a social network built on Pulse.

1. https://ind.ie/heartbeat/

Not anymore. SyncThing will remain as SyncThing and Pulse will be a fork.

https://discourse.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-is-still-syncthi...

Is BitTorrent Sync open source so it can be audited?

No. BitTorrent Sync is closed source: "BitTorrent Sync by BitTorrent, Inc is a proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronization tool available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Windows Phone and BSD." src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_Sync

Check out Tox for FOSS peer to peer, distributed, multimedia messaging: https://tox.im/