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.
jack promoted censorship when he was in twitter, now he is playing the saint card.
bigyabai 4 minutes ago [-]
Dorsey's legacy is promoting cryptocurrency. Censorship is part-and-parcel with owning any social media.
I wouldn't worry about people going sweet on him anytime soon.
xyzsparetimexyz 27 minutes ago [-]
Yo where's my
imtringued 1 hours ago [-]
I hope they will enjoy fighting with https://radicle.dev/ over the project name.
cosmojg 56 minutes ago [-]
I'm pretty sure that's the same project.
chanux 55 minutes ago [-]
I assumed they are the same :-O
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lostmsu 57 minutes ago [-]
One seems to be built on top of the other? Very confusing though, I agree.
IshKebab 39 minutes ago [-]
I think radicle.dev is the software that lets you store issues and PRs inside a Git repo, and radicle.network is some kind of interface to people's hosts that run the Radicle software. Something like that?
I agree it's super confusing though and their explanation isn't exactly clear:
seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it
VCFundedGenYer 1 hours ago [-]
Such a terrible name. Can't believe marketing didn't catch it.
culi 54 minutes ago [-]
Probably on purpose. Like "Broken, But Whole"
logicchains 26 minutes ago [-]
It could be deliberate. Like Wechat's Chinese name is "Weixin", which is a pun on "for sex" in Mandarin (for which its "people nearby" feature originally saw heavy usage). As a decentralized social network, Bitchat might see similar usage.
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orliesaurus 2 hours ago [-]
Is this irc compatible?
embedding-shape 1 hours ago [-]
Everything is pointing towards a hard "no", but I didn't dig deeper than literally read the first sentence in the README:
> A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architecture: local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and internet-based Nostr protocol for global reach. No accounts, no phone numbers, no central servers. It's the side-groupchat.
culi 52 minutes ago [-]
How would it be? Bitchat is for offline communication over Bluetooth Low Energy networks
jbverschoor 2 hours ago [-]
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dmix 59 minutes ago [-]
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.
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Relevant discussion yesterday:
> “Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036433
I wouldn't worry about people going sweet on him anytime soon.
I agree it's super confusing though and their explanation isn't exactly clear:
https://radicle.network/principles
seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it
> A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architecture: local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and internet-based Nostr protocol for global reach. No accounts, no phone numbers, no central servers. It's the side-groupchat.