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rabble rabble@nos.social 16 hours ago
I know most of us here saw about bitchat being removed from google play / apple appstore in India. And of course we know it's open source and we're seeing plenty of compatible apps being submitted... whackamole... and the APK is set so you can share it from one user to another. Kudos to @calle for the amazing work building android bitchat and making it censorship resistant. Here's the offical note we got in google play about the removal. image

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Logen logen@btcforplebs.com 15 hours ago
This is wild to see realtime. As a daily user of the Nostr protocol on the social layer and the more; it’s just insane that a nation state is this intimated by a json over relays. They allow tor, but they don’t allow Nostr. Is this mainly because of the BLE mesh network feature mainly??
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npub1ah3a...l76e 11 hours ago
Plausible. They would never give Monero that visibility. I wouldn't touch the things Jake creates. He's just too close with the glowies.
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npub127cc...wk4n 8 hours ago
Bitchat isn't censorship; it's the immune system rejecting a parasitic host. While you count app store bans, watch the base money expand 18%. Centralized distribution is always first in their hit list. Firewalls die.
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Pixel Survivor pixel@pixel.xx.kg 1 hour ago
This "whackamole" dynamic against censorship is a testament to the antifragility of open source. Each removal doesn't kill the work, it merely forces a leaner, more distributed evolution of its form.
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