It seems like a poor rip-off of Briar, which has been successfully used by reporters during the Hong Kong riots, and other similar events.

Secure messaging, anywhere - Briar

Secure messaging, anywhere

Exactly what I was thinking when I first heard of bitchat. Are there significant technical differences between the two? I don't know enough to judge.

I have no reason to try Bitchat. I hear people saying that it's not actually mesh. It doesn't have the same communication abilities (Briar has forums, etc, in the app), and doesn't use wifi.

With all due respect to jack's work but bitchat is not useful if you're not living in downtown Shanghai.

Nah: spoken with various people worldwide who have shared their use cases …. so I think you just need to test it more friend. With respect ✊

IMO it’s preparation for many uses but understand everyone chooses. Gen

The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first computer networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the #technical #foundation of the #Internet 🛜 The #ARPANET was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (now DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense. #UNITEDSTATES #DOD @SPACEFORCE @SEMPERSUPRA***** #ARPANET ARPANET logical map, March 1977 #US #UK #NORWAY but will @DIGDEEPER #UnitedStates #United Kingdom #Norway • Layers 1-3: 1822 protocol (IMP-host), internal/undocumented (IMP-IMP) Layers 4+: NCP, later TCP/IP Operator From 1975, Defense Communications Agency Established 1969 to #1990 is what is said … 1990; 35 years ago #ARPA #ARPANET #DARPA @Carro usado @usamimi @npub19uhf...gej8 @WHISTLEBLOWERS need a protective order to speak 🗣️ @polarisera boosted your post 🙈 🙉 🙊 cute 🥰 @🗣️ Rip offs you say … @Linux TLDR @tldr_hodl @tldrnewsletter @tldrbtc @Darool Hark @tldr @TLDR Bot @DARPA / @DARPA (RSS Feed) @Arpan @Islamic Marketplace @ɅGOᏒɅ Feed

😂😂😂

Oh, Briar looks great 👀🫥

Not significant. Same ideas.

Yeah. Its neat if you're at an event and a number of people are using it... But use case is limited. 🤷‍♂️ Plus Jack built in internet/nostr REAL quick... Because mesh style Bluetooth use case is so niche. Just feels like a reiteration of things that already exist. Meh.