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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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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh great, yet another secure messaging app.

Getting people to move off Messenger or even WhatsApp is tricky enough already for to interview and resistance to change. But even when you can coax them to move, you then often end up in a debate about where to move to. Signal, Briar, Viber, whatever proprietary thing Apple is currently pushing, or the thousands of other options/apps. I guess we can just add this one to that long list.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, what is actually needed is a secure messaging app that scrapes wraps existing apps. So when two people send messages through FancyMessages, they are secure. But then if only one person has FancyMessages, and the other has Facebook messenger, then they could still comminicate - the FB user using Messenger as usual, and our hero's FancyMessages app picking up the FB messages and passing them on through the FancyMessages UI.

[–] Jimny_Crkt@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

Beeper is like this, but the list of supported messaging apps is limited. It does have FB messenger though.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is nothing like the ones you list, this is local only no internet

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Okay. But one of my points still stands that there are already a bunch of p2p Bluetooth-based messaging apps out there.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

And more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked