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Bitchat is now on Radicle

162 points by h1watt

by inigyou

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Walked around Fusion Festival with Bitchat running. Saw about 20 other devices and a few messages. Nobody replied to my messages. So usage isn't zero, but 20 devices out of 80000 people isn't a lot. Most hops I saw was 2, meaning there wasn't enough density to make it any meaningful distance across the festival grounds.

by alwinaugustin

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This is after Indian government asked Github to remove Bitchat within three hours after notice .

by plebian

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If they care so much about availability maybe they should reconsider including libs.gms.location and be available on F-Droid (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24907#...)

by Cider9986

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People interested in BitChat should download it just so you have it in case it gets popular or you find someone to use it with. I tested it and it's surreal to text without WiFi or cellular.

by taylodl

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I first parsed this as Bitch At

by dmix

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That Radicle site design is an interesting take for a git repo platform. Good use of full width spacing, well thought out navigation, nice code rendering. I dig it.

by RobRivera

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That name
Tobias Bluth vibes

by baron3dl

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Bitchat is an AOS (https://andotherstuff.org/#foundry-projects) project. Surprised, they didn't rehost it on ngit (https://gitworkshop.dev/), which is also an AOS project.

by TranquilMarmot

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> Messages route through nearby devices (max 7 hops)
How far, realistically, could this reach using just iOS and Android devices? If each device can reach ~100m, that means you could theoretically reach somebody 700m (2.3k feet) away? Or would it be further if two devices are at the edge of their radio range?

by momentmaker

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For some context, it seems like the Indian government wants Bitchat to be taken down.
https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2080565084586135773

by xyzsparetimexyz

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Yo where's my

by qwertyastronaut

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I can’t wait until Goblin is acquired by Nematode. Then finally they might make Gorbachev open source.

by thisisnotauser

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I love these posts, every week it's "Gloop is now on Ploof!"

by pioneerjeff

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Are there any special features comparing with other decentrilized message product? Such as Nostr or XMTP？

by Qision

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Is it Jack Dorsey who moved the repo or someone else?

by Mistletoe

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This is the cyberpunk future I was hoping we would get…and we got something completely different, some kind of centralized corpo dystopia. I’ve installed it!

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by imtringued

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I hope they will enjoy fighting with https://radicle.dev/ over the project name.

by xyst

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In theory, this could work.
Setup machine with bluetooth receiver.
Funnel packets from Bluetooth receiver over a virtual private network (ie, wireguard, tailscale, netbird).
Then in another state/country/continent with server connected to vpn then rebroadcasts those packets over BLE.
A mesh network overlayed on top of another mesh network.

by ck2

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btw what's the current state of mesh wifi?
seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it

by guess_who_is_it

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jack promoted censorship when he was in twitter, now he is playing the saint card.

by VCFundedGenYer

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Such a terrible name. Can't believe marketing didn't catch it.

by zenethian

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Is this bit-chat or bitch-at?

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by orliesaurus

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Is this irc compatible?