NETTRASH.FamilyConnect

Family Connect is a private messenger for one family and nobody else — no feed, no discovery, no directory of users. The only people who can reach you are the ones your family's owner let in. It works out of the box: install, pick a username — no email address, no phone number — then create your family and become its owner, or join one with an invite code. The owner decides whether that code admits people instantly, needs approval, or admits nobody, and can rotate it, cap the membership, or remove someone. What makes Family Connect different is where your messages live. There is no vendor cloud: every installation talks to one Family Connect server. Out of the box that is the default server we operate — and on it, we hold your family's messages and files. But the server software is free and open source (MIT, written in Rust), and "Change server" on the sign-in screen points the app at…