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Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

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770 points ananddtyagi | 3 comments | 07 Jul 25 00:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.539s | source
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ChrisMarshallNY ◴[07 Jul 25 00:27 UTC] No.44485454[source]▶
Looks pretty interesting.

From what I can see, it's a native IOS/MacOS app (SwiftUI). I don't see an Android version.

Also seems pretty spartan, but it looks like it could be embedded in "friendlier" apps.

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1. ajr0 ◴[07 Jul 25 00:30 UTC] No.44485486[source]▶
I find this interesting, there was a briar app that was spoken about a few months ago that was only for android citing that iOS had issues [0] with apps running in background, wonder if/how this was solved here.

Also, I have not seen unlicense before -- guess I'm one of todays lucky 10,000

[0] https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/FAQ#will-t...

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2. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[07 Jul 25 00:31 UTC] No.44485499[source]▶
IOS/Apple Bluetooth is an interesting place.

Backrounding is kinda klunky. I think it's deliberate, as that's a real security vector.

3. vips7L ◴[07 Jul 25 16:30 UTC] No.44492018[source]▶
Isn't Briar all JVM? AFAIK that can't really run on iOS at all since Apple disallows foreign JITs; unless they compiled Briar to native.