Bitchat has become the most downloaded app in Uganda amid a government-ordered nationwide internet shutdown. 
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I can’t understand how they can download bitchat if they have no internet 🤣
time is the secret ingredient
Ugandans be like:
Wtf is that
we‘re on the right way … 🤙🏼
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How do they download without Internet, I have a cousin currently working there.
Would it be possible to have audio calls over BLE mesh ?
would be much more useful if instead of a useless chat room with anonymous people and ephemeral messages (that they're probably using only to kill time)
they could have a real mesh social network with permanent content and identities and structured threading conversations if they were sending nostr posts back and forth via their bluetooths
Checkoit samiz by @KoalaSat also they could do that
they whom could do what?
Bitchat team, would love for that to be a feature.
There are much more suitable protocols like Meshtastic and MeshCore, and they already implement what you’re talking about — Store & Forward and Room Server.
There is an already defined NIP for this, any app can just follow it to be interoperable. This way, People using @npub1yjxe...l9d0 or Bitchat (or any other future app) will be able to sync and communicate .md
could @YakiHonne do it?
nostr is better
Actually, no. JSON is pretty crappy.
The Ugandan government is now bitchat’s new marketing department lol
Any data on Iran?
Bitchat for the win! Allowing people to communicate with other humans regardless of internet access.
So that works kind of like you get sent a lot of messages that you store and distribute?
Isn’t that very memory consuming?
What the hell is bitchat PLUS