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minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 hours agoThis is nothing like the ones you list, this is local only no internet
minus-squareThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoOkay. But one of my points still stands that there are already a bunch of p2p Bluetooth-based messaging apps out there.
minus-squareJason2357@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 minutes agoNone of them cross the line yet to be “good enough” in practice for all the use cases of an offline messenger. Briar is probably the best, but not useful if even one of your group is on iOS.
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·18 hours agoAnd more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked
This is nothing like the ones you list, this is local only no internet
Okay. But one of my points still stands that there are already a bunch of p2p Bluetooth-based messaging apps out there.
None of them cross the line yet to be “good enough” in practice for all the use cases of an offline messenger. Briar is probably the best, but not useful if even one of your group is on iOS.
And more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked