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There is already an app that does Bluetooth mesh networking; is peer-to-peer, open source, and doesn't have the grubby hands of this CEO prick over it. Oh and it puts all your messengers through Tor for extra security.
It's called Briar. https://briarproject.org/
#Briar #OpenSource #PeertoPeer #MeshNetworking #MessengerApp #ImSoSickofTechBros

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org I’ve thought about this. Would be great if an app like Signal would have direct and P2P message exchange as well, as a fallback to cloud routing. But the amount of work the app would need to do in the background would be a huge problem.

@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org "CEO Jack Dorsey spent the weekend building Bitchat,"....

"The weekend".... sure
Maybe he just nicked the briar source code and changed the icons

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Any and all competition to everything that Meta and the other big tech corps do is a good thing, because even if the new competition is as bad as the incumbents it still limits their current monopolies.