• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    I mean…I guess thanks for the stepping off point? Android has the Briar Project, which couldn’t be distributed for iOS due to Apple’s license fuckery. I’m at least curious enough to look through this and see what they’ve done different.

    I think the most useless part of this is using BT only which has a range of what…40ft?

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      1 day ago

      It’s definitely limiting. LoRa wan meshed network is more useful. But most people don’t have a LoRa capable device. I could see something like this at a protest or public event at least. If there were enough nodes in the area the network could span hundreds to thousands of feet with the right conditions. But that’s a big ask ATM.

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        5 hours ago

        Meshtastic requires bespoke hardware, it’ll always stay a marginal tool

        This requires: an iPhone.

        And someone will make a bridge from this to Meshtastic in a while anyway