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Posted by h1watt 4 hours ago

Bitchat Is Now on Radicle(radicle.network)
77 points | 30 comments
Cider9986 4 minutes ago|
People interested in BitChat should download it just so you have it in case it gets popular or you find someone to use it with. I tested it and it's surreal to text without WiFi or cellular.
baron3dl 11 minutes ago||
Bitchat is an AOS (https://andotherstuff.org/#foundry-projects) project. Surprised, they didn't rehost it on ngit (https://gitworkshop.dev/), which is also an AOS project.
zenethian 2 hours ago||
Is this bit-chat or bitch-at?
subscribed 1 hour ago||
Yes :)
logicchains 28 minutes ago|||
Find out on expertsexchange.com
all2 23 minutes ago||
Have you ever heard of the rather excellent Pen Island, vendors of fine pens? On my work computer, so you can plumb the internet archive for yourself.
HumblyTossed 21 minutes ago|||
Yep.
embedding-shape 1 hour ago|||
Sounds like a suitable addition to the ATProto ecosystem :)
culi 53 minutes ago||
It's explicitly in opposition to ATProto. That's probably why they went with Radicle and not Tangled
tdkx21 7 minutes ago||
[dead]
dmboyd 49 minutes ago|||
Or a misspelling of bitch hat
tamimio 1 hour ago||
It depends on whom you’re talking to
pioneerjeff 2 hours ago||
Are there any special features comparing with other decentrilized message product? Such as Nostr or XMTP?
ckcheng 1 hour ago||
Works over Bluetooth mesh offline and Nostr online.

Relevant discussion yesterday:

> “Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036433

subscribed 1 hour ago|||
Yes, it's in the first paragraph of https://bitchat.free/.
guess_who_is_it 39 minutes ago||
jack promoted censorship when he was in twitter, now he is playing the saint card.
bigyabai 3 minutes ago|
Dorsey's legacy is promoting cryptocurrency. Censorship is part-and-parcel with owning any social media.

I wouldn't worry about people going sweet on him anytime soon.

xyzsparetimexyz 26 minutes ago||
Yo where's my
imtringued 1 hour ago||
I hope they will enjoy fighting with https://radicle.dev/ over the project name.
cosmojg 54 minutes ago||
I'm pretty sure that's the same project.
chanux 53 minutes ago|||
I assumed they are the same :-O
lostmsu 56 minutes ago||
One seems to be built on top of the other? Very confusing though, I agree.
IshKebab 38 minutes ago||
I think radicle.dev is the software that lets you store issues and PRs inside a Git repo, and radicle.network is some kind of interface to people's hosts that run the Radicle software. Something like that?

I agree it's super confusing though and their explanation isn't exactly clear:

https://radicle.network/principles

ck2 1 hour ago||
btw what's the current state of mesh wifi?

seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it

VCFundedGenYer 1 hour ago||
Such a terrible name. Can't believe marketing didn't catch it.
culi 52 minutes ago||
Probably on purpose. Like "Broken, But Whole"
logicchains 25 minutes ago||
It could be deliberate. Like Wechat's Chinese name is "Weixin", which is a pun on "for sex" in Mandarin (for which its "people nearby" feature originally saw heavy usage). As a decentralized social network, Bitchat might see similar usage.
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