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