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With WebRTC, can someone make a ephemeral peer-to-peer, one-to-one or one-to-many messenger?

I think that would be more private. Sever the 3rd party.

You can't really make anything "ephemeral" with data. The closest you can get is probably a neutral third party that promises to delete the data at a future point, and locks down all endpoints where users can see the data. Of course this is still quite imperfect.

With a distributed version, you'd just have to trust all the people you're sending data to to delete it.

I'm not sure most people would grasp the difference between a company that says it doesn't keep your data and a company that says it can't keep your data.

Probably not, but it could still be useful for privacy minded individuals. Especially if it was open sourced on GitHub.

Part of the problem here is that the privacy users care about here is not from a third party, but from whomever the recipient might otherwise choose to share the content with.

And that pretty much requires a party other than the recipient whose interest it is to lock down the client as much as possible to at least increase the hassle-factor in violating the senders trust.

Otherwise, if the recipient had the "EvilReplicatingToFacebook" fork of the app readily available, it'd quickly destroy any value in the app.

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