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

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770 points ananddtyagi | 1 comments | 07 Jul 25 00:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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syntaxing ◴[07 Jul 25 00:30 UTC] No.44485489[source]▶
Whoa this is really neat. I’ve been trying to get into Meshtastic but it’s hard to convince others when you need special hardware. Would be super neat if Apple did something similar. Shouldn’t be too hard since the AirTags use the same idea?

Would also be neat if there was a way to build a LoRA proxy to extend the range. I might give this a try with my meshtastic devices.

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1. jamaicahest ◴[08 Jul 25 08:07 UTC] No.44498072[source]▶
I think the reason AirTag works is because Apple turns it on-by-default on i-devices and people can't be bothered to go turn it off. For a chat to work on the same scale it would literally need Apple or Google to ship it as enabled-by-default on all phones.