bitchat - bitchat is a decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over bluetooth mesh networks. no internet required, no servers, no phone numbers.

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PsychoJenny powiedział(a):
Theres gotta be something wrong. It always says im the only person in my country, and im the only person in #sneed
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It only seems to say theres others around when someone sends a message. It so far seems largely useless as I can't find a single fucking soul anywhere outside of #sneed.
 
Nick Gars powiedział(a):
It only seems to say theres others around when someone sends a message.
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This might be a hurdle for people. It seems neat as hell but if it appears that nobody else is using it a potential new user will just uninstall and go back to facebook messenger or whatever else they already have. I get the lack of chatroom history might be a feature (or I'm too much of a nigger with no time rn to figure it all out) but it makes #Sneed and my local area seem like barren wastelands.
ETA: lack of chat history also makes normies not want to use it in general I'd wager. If all the things you and your friends talked about gets wiped the next time you open the app you won't be inclined to actually use it for anything more substantial than being an edgelord.
 
888Flux powiedział(a):
It's entirely vibe coded, riddled with jeet PRs, and just stolen from Briar and other projects like Meshtastic and Reticulum because Jack Dorsey is an attention whore


If it can't work over 200 meters of 1981 military surplus telephone wire or HF radio, can you really call it "off-grid"?
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Btw, check out Reticulum - you can even access the Farms over it, over radio:

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I've developed a frontend for accessing the KiwiFarms over HF radio and other low-bitrate networking devices.

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For HF radio links, it uses a software modem that's a wrapper around the codec2 raw data modes with an added ARQ and beaconing layer [under active development].

The Reticulum Network Stack provides full end to end encryption, perfect forward secrecy and handles the networking layer.
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Dorsey is a very avid proponent of vibe coding app ideas, so that's no surprise. He's also somewhat invested in Nostr, the protocol that seems to also be integrated into this thing. Nostr is currently in a spot where it's 80% bots, 10% talking about Nostr, 9% discussing Bitcoin and 1% posting into the void. This is one of the many attempts to make something useful out of it.
 
Leylon Sneed powiedział(a):
There's no way this is feasible in a shtf scenario. This is for setting you smart thermostat, and getting a grocery list from your smart fridge. Bluetooth doesn't have the range and the battery drain is too high to work off grid.


You could use it to talk to people in the same office as you but that's about it.
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Bluetooth in low power mode uses fuck all. It can be set to poll only every now and then and has some other tricks.

The latest versions have a quite decent range (300m-500m I believe) but I've not really looked into real world tests myself.
 
neger psykolog powiedział(a):
The latest versions have a quite decent range (300m-500m I believe) but I've not really looked into real world tests myself.
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Bluetooth 5.0 introduced a long range PHY that could theoretically quadruple range while slashing the data rate to 1/8th.

Unfortunately, you can label your product as having Bluetooth 5.0 support without supporting optional features like the long range PHY. In the case of Raspberry Pi 4, I think they used the exact same Cypress CYW43455 wireless chip as the Raspberry Pi 3B+ while changing the Bluetooth version from 4.2 to 5.0. There are a lot of Bluetooth 5 products that don't support the goodies, and product pages don't tend to talk about it.
 
While this would seem like a nice idea at first, I think picking a standard mesh infrastructure to piggyback on would be better than relying on Bluetooth. No matter how many strides we make bluetooth connectivity, We'll never get the kind of reliability that we'd need for a disaster scenario or Arab Spring situation. I still haven't played around with Reticulum, but something like that or mesh over SDR would be better. The problem with that, of course, is adoption. People are way more likely to install an all in one app and experiment than they are to get something like Yggdrasil up and running, but that doesn't mean that we need to reinvent the wheel.

also, like @888Flux said, this was vibe coded, and was just kinda a weekend project for Jack. Probably don't wanna migrate to this as your main messaging app. Grab something like briar instead.
 
DeutschfagAufAbwegen powiedział(a):
Is bitsneed dead already? Whenever I join, nobody is there anymore. It was a good bit of fun while it was populated by fellow retards even if it had some rather annoying issues
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Bitch@ was kind of "Designed" with anti-government protests in mind. It's probably being put to the test right now in Iran where the government has cut off all internet access to try and stop protests.
 
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