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Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. (github.com)
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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Let's build an app to liberate communications but only release it inside a closed garden. Great idea

[–] Eldritch@piefed.social 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I don't trust Jack. But this does seem marginally interesting. Actually decentralized, no servers supposedly. We'll have to see. Again I sure as hell I'm not going to trust dorsey. And he's got it under some cringey edgelord "unlicense" license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name. The actual concept seems intriguing. But definitely nothing to get excited about currently.

[–] sit_up_straight@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

youtube-dl and yt-dlp are under unlicense. it's just boilerplate legalese for public domain

[–] Pro@programming.dev 19 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

And he's got it under some cringey edgelord "unlicense" license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name.

Bro, Public Domain.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.social 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

He used different terms in different places. And to be frank, I'm not sure I'd heard about unlicense before. But upon closer look it does seem to be a the goal. Despite not being valid or applicable in a few jurisdictions.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

From the description it seems to be rather clean. And perhaps not to be limited to Apple for too long.