A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

jagermo wrote: post #3

I don't know. I do not like Jack Dorey's involvement. Not a big fan of his. I'd rather use Briar ( https://briarproject.org/ )

If you don't like a thing and share that dislike, care to elaborate your reasoning so others can profit from it?

Re: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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Post by mikecamara » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 7:57 AM UTC

What happened to that fire chat app that did the same thing back in 2014 or something?

Re: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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Post by gloxkiqcza » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 8:04 AM UTC

jagermo wrote: post #3

I don't know. I do not like Jack Dorey's involvement. Not a big fan of his. I'd rather use Briar ( https://briarproject.org/ )

There’s no app for Apple platforms making it a lot less useful.

Re: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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Post by jagermo » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 8:11 AM UTC

gloxkiqcza wrote: post #6

jagermo wrote: post #3

I don't know. I do not like Jack Dorey's involvement. Not a big fan of his. I'd rather use Briar ( https://briarproject.org/ )

There’s no app for Apple platforms making it a lot less useful.

fair point, especially in the west. But looking at the market share, Android is probably the platform to build for, especially if you have an additional phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

Re: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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Post by budududuroiu » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 8:11 AM UTC

Seeing Jack committing to this repo is kinda wild to me. I also wish I had fuck-you money and could spend my day engrossed in whatever I find interesting

Re: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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Post by maqp » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 8:13 AM UTC

Could someone please explain in what situation do you use a BlueTooth messaging app? Like, even BT5 range won't exceed 400 meters. What good is this? You're not going to send images to journalists from protests with it (you'd do wisely to keep it in airplane mode until you get home and then you'd upload them to their securedrop or whatever), and you don't need off-band security to let the kids know it's dinner time.

Re: A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

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Post by maqp » Mon, Jan 19, 2026, 8:14 AM UTC

gloxkiqcza wrote: post #6

jagermo wrote: post #3

I don't know. I do not like Jack Dorey's involvement. Not a big fan of his. I'd rather use Briar ( https://briarproject.org/ )

There’s no app for Apple platforms making it a lot less useful.

That's probably because AFAIK Apple doesn't allow process forking, making any Tor-based messenger almost impossible to run as Tor would have to run as part of the main thread.