FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared

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Post by evah » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 9:47 PM UTC

FireChat was a tool for revolution, then disappeared
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Post by Klonoar » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 10:23 PM UTC

Huh, I've had the mesh network concept rolling around in the back of my head for years specifically due to FireChat. I had no idea it was gone - guess I took it for granted.

Wonder if anybody's got more info on what happened?

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Post by ianpenney » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 10:26 PM UTC

Meshtastic is alive https://meshtastic.org/

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Post by miguelazo » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

Very suspicious ending, which calls into question the real origin story.

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Post by bishbosh » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 10:27 PM UTC

It is endlessly depressing to me that the 'revolutionary' tools that so often catch on aren't free and open source.

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Post by ParanoidShroom » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 10:29 PM UTC

I applied to open garden many years ago, solved their coding challenges but after back and forth it didn't go anywhere.

It seem Stas has since then started clostra.com The fireside chat messenger just rebranded. https://www.newnode.com/download.

I love a good conspiracy but shows little evidence.

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Post by livueta » Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 10:32 PM UTC

ianpenney wrote: post #3

Meshtastic is alive https://meshtastic.org/

While I quite like Meshtastic and have literally dozens of t-beams, they serve fairly different usecases. Meshtastic is great for keeping in touch with your preorganized paragliding group or whatever, but the need for special hardware will always limit adoption in emergent scenarios vs. FireChat's "we're going to the protest; install this app".