bitchat can now send itself to another android phone with no internet required
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Nothing like governments trying to impose barriers to speed development!
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This is the way, beautiful
Whats the difference of just sharing the apk offline?
Unstoppable!
awesome
Well then you’re fucked lol.
This is super cool!
It's a really fast and useful way to onboard people, and could be applied to a lot of apps.
Now that is a rad addition 👏🏻🤘🏻
That can happen from a signed one, too, tho. The dev doesn't always know that their code base is infected and can transmit malicious code unwittingly.
No one is denying that. This is just adding another potential entry.
@calle where SHA hashes for apk verify ser?
I can't seem to find them on radicle nor GH
**sad cat noises**
Cool. You can also use LocalSend to send any installed app on your Android to another Android over WiFi. Not sure if that feature is implemented in iPhones.
Everyone should have a Meshtastic mode installed and running on their phone. Those will reach 3 miles in the city and 10 miles line of site between mesh nodes. It's a much bigger mesh network.
Vibe coders are finally catching up.
Next you'll be able to send music and memes using bitchat. (You can also send files over Bluetooth without Bitchat, all bitchat does is make it easier for the authorities to track you)
When I was at school, this is like, 16 years ago.. we could already send files over Bluetooth.
I would download music, put it on my phone, then Bluetooth it to my classmates at school.
Now retards think that this is some new technology because they built a tracking app that uses Bluetooth to ping your device information and metadata to local law enforcement
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Is it possible to stay anon? With a burner phone.
bt mesh not works.
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Wait what? How!
I got one. Tested it and could not find a node yet. I think I need someone with a second device to test it.
It also supports online mode through nostr relays when available!
I downloaded the app. And from the idea it is somewhat interesting. To have locally bound communication.
And the cool thing is to have random connection.
But I really doubt the uecase yet. I feel for it being somehow applicable, many people around me needed to have the app installed at first. And then they would need to look at it at the moment we are around eachother.
I see so many probabilities, that speak against Bitchat. And maby a handful that actually are useful.
The big problem with privacy and the lack of it keeps being the same. Usually people do not feel, that they are watched. And when they feel they are watched, they think it is ok as long as they are watched just the same as everyone around them.
I get where you’re coming from. If BitChat required everyone to be staring at their phone at the same moment, yeah, it wouldn’t make much sense. But that’s not really how it works.
Once the app is installed and Bluetooth is on, the phone just quietly participates. People don’t have to actively open it or think about it. It’s basically a passive relay that sits there until it’s needed.
The use‑case isn’t “daily chatting with random people nearby.” It’s more like a backup layer for when the normal stuff fails — storms, outages, dead zones, whatever. In those moments, even a small number of people with the app installed is enough to create a working local network.
Most folks don’t care about privacy or decentralization until something breaks. BitChat is just meant to still function when the usual infrastructure doesn’t. It’s not trying to replace anything — it’s just a fallback.
Ok. Still I think wherever Bitchat works, I could also just whisper whatever in someones ear.
free your mind
think of Apple's FindMy feature, it works, doesn't it?
I wonder what's the battery consumption on this thing. Briar and Bridgefy can consume a whole lot of battery.
I keep seeing posts about Bitchat features that at least in my case —I downloaded the app from the Zap Store—aren’t available.
Are those features real? If they’re not, please stop getting my hopes up.
I bet it's impossible in iOS.
True. But it works for the number of users combined with a hardware and Operating system developer to make it default on every device they sell.
Bitchat is simply a small opensource project.
Thanks for the case. Very happy to see more now.
Sorry I simply used a confrontal way to hear usecases. My mind failed to bring up some good ones but a lot of non-usecases and the general dificulty to convince anyone, to install an app.
as was Bitcoin once
I hope you understand, that I support the purpose. But an app that drains my battery extremely, I will not run in the Background for the case it relays a message to someone within the next year.
I use local send, I have never done the app transfer
then you dont understand what bitchat is or how it works.
Supposed hypothetically, If you line up 1000 people 50 metres apart, you will have 50km long line up. You cannot whisper 50 meteres away, and you definitely cannot relay the whisper person by person within a reasonable amount of time to the end of the line.
With Bitchat you can do both.
True. It was an exageration. But as I understood, the maximum amount of hops is seven. So even when every person on earth used it all the time, the reach would be seven connections.
When I tried it, consumption was not small.
does it drain your battery? which OS? I don't see drain on android
I will test it again.
I have GrapheneOS instelled.
me too but it rarely uses more than 1%
ah true
then I will keep it running again
Easier to block with jammers.
Try bluewhale: https://github.com/offlineapps/bluewhale-android/pull/10
supporting the mesh 🙌🫂
Wasn't this always up feature enabled through f-droid, when bitchat was available on f-droid?
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1. This is the day that we feel like we've lost our whole world. So love your parents when they are alive 😢
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2. Vlog v.6 of a very nice creation by MadMunky 🔥
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3. It’s great that Bitchat could share without internet now 👇🏻
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4. One of the happiest days in the life of a nostrich couple ❤️
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5. This podcast is worth watching 🎙️
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6. He is gonna distract a bit from Amethyst 👇🏻
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7. They celebrate this happy moment with their cats and Nostr community 👶🏻
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8. Nice news from Shosho 👌🏻
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9. A very popular nostrich couple celebrates their 20th anniversary ❤️
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10. Decentralized chat, now on your smartwatch. 😍
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Disagree.
@Manuel Garcia Checking the Zap Store build of Bitchat against announced features is a habit I respect.