Ingenious name. I feel like Bitchat should be connected somehow with PenIsland.
There is already a really good foss app that does exactly that, it’s called briar and is as secure and private as it gets. The downside with p2p communication apps being, that they eat your phones battery for breakfast. Still a good option for activists or journalists I think. It’s a good way to get around the “server in the middle” problem. Still more convenient to run your own (xmpp) server at home imho…
** for Android (and Windows/macOS/Linux) but not iOS.
And apparently never going to be as some key component is written in Java. Other technical obstacles should be solvable (like f.ex. getting continuous running in bg by exploiting location services like iSH can do)
I once did some programming on the Cybiko, a device from 2000 that could form a wireless mesh network with peers. The idea was that you could have a shopping mall full of teens and they’d be able to chat with each other from one end to the other by routing through the mesh. It was a neat device!
I wanted a cybiko so bad as a teen. It seemed like it would be so cool if everyone I knew bought one. Of course no one did, but I still think they are awesome.
Have a look at meshtastic. Yes, you do have to get a separate device, but range on it can be several tens to hundreds of miles depending on the mesh density.
Yeah my first thought when I read the headline was “why not just use meshtastic?”
In practice range seems to be a few kilometers, in places with lots of nodes.
Bitch@
If you’re in Bluetooth range can’t you chat with your mouths? Or is it for secretly chatting when you’re in a group of people? I don’t get the use case.
Could be useful on a plane: If you have different seats than someone and don’t want to pay for your airline’s ridiculous data prices. Although, most airlines I fly on(american, delta, air canada, united) all have free RCS/Facebook/Whatsapp, but not necessarily Signal, Telegram, Matrix, or your preferred secure service.
Bluetooth ranges are quite large now.
But an example even if someone is a foot away would be a concert or event where it’s to loud.
I have no idea if this is correct. But imagine if you have a setup like Apple’s AirTag. Except when you receive a signal (message) you also relay it to whoever’s path you cross for the next X amount of time. The more people using the app the bigger the mesh network gets.
The best app to Bitch At things.
Neat idea 10 years ago “discovered” recently by a tech bro who thinks he’s the first one to think of it. He got his clicks, I guess.
Yeah, fuck Jack.
Why?
I’m happy to see a niche decentralized thing from Jack more than if it was another commercial start-up. And I have nothing against yet another bluetooth chat. But I’m not impressed. In the whitepaper nothing is written about spam protection, so it wouldn’t work as a reliable P2P app at scale. And the UI… It’s mere a toy for Jack’s personal nostalgia about “the good old times”. And nostalgia driven development doesn’t work in general, I would say.
Seems rehashed, with more enshittification likely to be baked in. Typical tech bros.
Bitch At
Lmao
Where my bitchat
I read it like that first and thought it was one of these illegal apps to track your partner without them knowing.
Smack by Bitchup
Move bitch get out the way
messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks. No internet
So he’s made a shitty version of Briar and crammed crypto into it?
Briar doesn’t have an iOS client an never will
This doesn’t have an android client 😀
Interesting. I wonder why Briar won’t have an iOS client?
I’m sure the background limitations are a big part, but I wonder if there’s also limits to what they can do with bluetooth
Like I said, Briar is better
Just wait for AI enhancements.
Let’s build an app to liberate communications but only release it inside a closed garden. Great idea
I don’t trust Jack. But this does seem marginally interesting. Actually decentralized, no servers supposedly. We’ll have to see. Again I sure as hell I’m not going to trust dorsey. And he’s got it under some cringey edgelord “unlicense” license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name. The actual concept seems intriguing. But definitely nothing to get excited about currently.
youtube-dl and yt-dlp are under unlicense. it’s just boilerplate legalese for public domain
And he’s got it under some cringey edgelord “unlicense” license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name.
Bro, Public Domain.
He used different terms in different places. And to be frank, I’m not sure I’d heard about unlicense before. But upon closer look it does seem to be a the goal. Despite not being valid or applicable in a few jurisdictions.
https://spdx.org/licenses/Unlicense.html
https://opensource.org/license/unlicense
these two institutions endorse the license
From the description it seems to be rather clean. And perhaps not to be limited to Apple for too long.
