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Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by inigyou »

Walked around Fusion Festival with Bitchat running. Saw about 20 other devices and a few messages. Nobody replied to my messages. So usage isn't zero, but 20 devices out of 80000 people isn't a lot. Most hops I saw was 2, meaning there wasn't enough density to make it any meaningful distance across the festival grounds.

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by 2color »

imtringued wrote: post #15

I hope they will enjoy fighting with https://radicle.dev/ over the project name.

Radicle contributor here.

It's the same project. radicle.dev is for the protocol, radicle.network is for the network explorer.

Note that that radicle.network is a static site that you can also self host: https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad:z4V1s...

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by inigyou »

ronsor wrote: post #47
qwertyastronaut wrote: post #45

I can’t wait until Goblin is acquired by Nematode. Then finally they might make Gorbachev open source.

And I thought Poob already had it for you. Too many proper nouns in titles.

For people who know what Bitchat and Radicle and GitHub and India are, though, and saw the Indian government threatened GitHub to remove Bitchat, this is news.

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by inigyou »

behindsight wrote: post #43
IshKebab wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think radicle.dev is the software that lets you store issues and PRs inside a Git repo, and radicle.network is some kind of interface to people's hosts that run the Radicle software. Something like that? I agree it's super confusing though and their explanation isn't exactly clear: https://radicle.network/principles

the main reason they mentioned [1] for radicle.network is because their old domain radicle.xyz was blocked in some places by some lists that they think was because it may have hosted certain UGC that triggered some flags. > Content about Radicle (explainers, guides, download links, blog posts) which is under control of the Radicle team. We will use radicle.dev for these purposes. > Content on Radicle (repositories ho…

What if you disagree with the centralisation of the internet into some guy's suffix list?

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by culi »

thisisnotauser wrote: post #39

I love these posts, every week it's "Gloop is now on Ploof!"

it's just two recent examples (Gleam on Tangled and now Bitchat on Radicle) and they're both the same format.

[Some well-liked but niche tech] switched their code forge to [a decentralized code forge].

Tbh I'm surprised how many on HN seem unfamiliar with Tangled and Radicle (and Bitchat and Gleam).

Re: Bitchat is now on Radicle

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Post by inigyou »

ck2 wrote: post #14

btw what's the current state of mesh wifi? seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it

Mesh networks don't scale beyond a few thousand nodes if the nodes move frequently. Nobody has found a way to make that work. You can push another order of magnitude if you give up on decentralisation.
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