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Posted by no_creativity_ 1/19/2026

A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth(bitchat.free)
636 points | 339 commentspage 4
kbouck 1/19/2026|
Clever name that changes depending on where you put the space
ddtaylor 1/19/2026||
I am using Briar and Session right now for this.

Jack makes cool stuff, but I fell off BlueSky and I have little desire to engage with the "community" on there. It's very echo-chambery like every social media and I feel it's mostly identical to X or Truth just a different echo chamber. It seemed like BlueSky was being sold as a solution to what happened with Twitter and I feel like it didn't make true on it's promise.

prathje 1/19/2026||
There are a lot of old and new mobile applications doing this. If there is anyone doing some research in this space, maybe take a look at our "DisruptaBLE" implementation for delay tolerant networking on embedded devices: https://openreview.net/forum?id=xy3Y6cLOV2
Tooster 1/19/2026||
Cap your html bodies to 75ch width for comfortable reading. Minimalism doesn't conflict with nice layout and it's 1 line of css.
ifh-hn 1/19/2026||
It doesn't matter how hard I try to see: bit-chat, my brain defaults to: bitch-at, and if I scan it: bitch-hat.
lazzlazzlazz 1/19/2026||
Every time I've logged into Bitchat, nobody appears to be online - across the entire United States.
jaldert 1/19/2026|
Same in Iceland, but even when traveling across the world, I never see anyone when trying it.
ENadyr 1/19/2026||
Whatever happened to VolkFi? A YC company that was making a decentralized phone, discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19437963
freakynit 1/20/2026||
All comments analyzed by LLM: https://hn-discussions.top/bitchat-bluetooth-p2p-messaging/
russnes 1/19/2026|
Has Signal ever considered implementing any sort of peer to peer message propagation?
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