Communication Software for BSD
Jitsi
Jitsi is an open-source project and software toolset that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting. Jitsi supports popular protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, ICQ/AIM, Windows Live, Yahoo!, Google Hangouts, OTR, ZRTP and more.
GNUnet
Help build the internet of tomorrow with GNUnet. It's a software framework for fully decentralized, peer-to-peer networking that offers link encryption, peer discovery, resource allocation, and secure communication. The goal of the project is to replace the old insecure Internet protocol stack. GNUnet includes a fully decentralized DNS (Domain Name System) that utilize a directed graph instead of the hierarchical system implemented today. It also has it's own identity system re:claimID, a decentralized Identity Platform that is baked into GNUnet.
Irssi
Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX-based operating systems. Irssi comes with IRC built-in and is multi-protocol friendly for module authors, it also support integration with SILC and ICB protocols via plugins. The application easily integrates with your window manager, your terminal emulator, your remote connection, your terminal multiplexer, your IRC bouncer and your IRC adapter. Allowing you to use Irssi virtually everywher throughout your system. Irssi is free software licensed under the GPLv2, available for macOS, Linux, BSD, Solaris, and Cygwin.