Whoa, I was just mentioning in another post how I have my family member install bitchat just in case for emergencies. This is a very interesting alternative. With a travel router, I can significantly expand the chat radius compared to bitchat's purely BLE approach.

Edit: Boo, no iOS app

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aaravchen an hour ago | parent | next [-]

You should definitely read the news about bitchat. It doesnt actually have basically any security or privacy from all the dozens of independent security audit findings. Jack even said it was vibe coded and never audited.

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DANmode 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Boo, native apps.

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Dylan16807 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If it's not native then we need to give powerful Bluetooth capabilities to web pages which isn't very good.

	▲	DANmode 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		People said the same thing about allowing the browser to trigger the microphone and the camera. Use sane browser and or OS inherited permissions, and sane permission-promoting and gating, and it’s a non-issue. (Have you seen the prompts for Location, Microphone, WebUSB, and other “scary” features in the browser? There’s really not much room for misinterpretation!)