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Are there any special features comparing with other decentrilized message product? Such as Nostr or XMTP？

by pioneerjeff

I first parsed this as Bitch At

by taylodl

I can’t wait until Goblin is acquired by Nematode. Then finally they might make Gorbachev open source.

by qwertyastronaut

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.

by Cider9986

That Radicle site design is an interesting take for a git repo platform. Good use of full width spacing, well thought out navigation, nice code rendering. I dig it.

by dmix

Walked around Fusion Festival with Bitchat running. Saw about 20 other devices and a few messages. Nobody replied to my messages. So usage isn't zero, but 20 devices out of 80000 people isn't a lot. Most hops I saw was 2, meaning there wasn't enough density to make it any meaningful distance across the festival grounds.

by inigyou

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  • Are there any special features comparing with other decentrilized message product? Such as Nostr or XMTP？
    by pioneerjeff
  • I first parsed this as Bitch At
    by taylodl
  • I can’t wait until Goblin is acquired by Nematode. Then finally they might make Gorbachev open source.
    by qwertyastronaut
  • 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.
    by baron3dl
  • 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.
    by Cider9986
  • That Radicle site design is an interesting take for a git repo platform. Good use of full width spacing, well thought out navigation, nice code rendering. I dig it.
    by dmix
  • Walked around Fusion Festival with Bitchat running. Saw about 20 other devices and a few messages. Nobody replied to my messages. So usage isn't zero, but 20 devices out of 80000 people isn't a lot. Most hops I saw was 2, meaning there wasn't enough density to make it any meaningful distance across the festival grounds.
    by inigyou
  • If they care so much about availability maybe they should reconsider including libs.gms.location and be available on F-Droid (https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24907#...)
    by plebian