Concept has been around for a looong while. Surprised at the amount of interest this is getting. A lot of the protestors in Hong Kong used it back in the day.
People need to become aware of meshtastic. Even better, because you aren’t limited by BLE.
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the closest thing is firechat. meshtastic needs additional hardware.
I've never seen anything that worked this seamlessly across devices in the past
Bluetooth sucks and I think we still need more people to move away from cell phones, towards MURS and CB type stuff, but this is really groundbreaking for the many phone havers
I remember that was a thing in the 2014 protests and IIRC they were mostly using it not because anything was blocked by the government but because the cell networks were simply overloaded due to the density of devices.
#Reticulum also works with only a mobile phone, but still lacks the Bluetooth Interface. But WiFi already works out of the box. Should be the same with BT one day.
