Bitchat is now on Radicle
by h1watt on 7/25/2026, 1:18:49 PM
https://radicle.network/nodes/rosa.radicle.network/rad%3Az2v9tRJz1oknFAqCSY5W5c76nVvm6
Comments
by: inigyou
Walked around Fusion Festival with Bitchat running. Saw about 20 other devices and a few messages. Nobody replied to my messages. So usage isn't zero, but 20 devices out of 80000 people isn't a lot. Most hops I saw was 2, meaning there wasn't enough density to make it any meaningful distance across the festival grounds.
7/25/2026, 6:44:25 PM
by: plebian
If they care so much about availability maybe they should reconsider including libs.gms.location and be available on F-Droid (<a href="https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24907#note_2704652160" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/24907#...</a>)
7/25/2026, 5:37:23 PM
by: Cider9986
People interested in BitChat should download it just so you have it in case it gets popular or you find someone to use it with. I tested it and it's surreal to text without WiFi or cellular.
7/25/2026, 5:22:13 PM
by: dmix
That Radicle site design is an interesting take for a git repo platform. Good use of full width spacing, well thought out navigation, nice code rendering. I dig it.
7/25/2026, 4:28:50 PM
by: RobRivera
That name<p>Tobias Bluth vibes
7/25/2026, 6:45:07 PM
by: baron3dl
Bitchat is an AOS (<a href="https://andotherstuff.org/#foundry-projects" rel="nofollow">https://andotherstuff.org/#foundry-projects</a>) project. Surprised, they didn't rehost it on ngit (<a href="https://gitworkshop.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://gitworkshop.dev/</a>), which is also an AOS project.
7/25/2026, 5:15:16 PM
by: TranquilMarmot
> Messages route through nearby devices (max 7 hops)<p>How far, realistically, could this reach using just iOS and Android devices? If each device can reach ~100m, that means you could theoretically reach somebody 700m (2.3k feet) away? Or would it be further if two devices are at the edge of their radio range?
7/25/2026, 6:25:24 PM
by: momentmaker
For some context, it seems like the Indian government wants Bitchat to be taken down.<p><a href="https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2080565084586135773" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/jack/status/2080565084586135773</a>
7/25/2026, 6:08:24 PM
by: xyzsparetimexyz
Yo where's my
7/25/2026, 5:00:25 PM
by: qwertyastronaut
I can’t wait until Goblin is acquired by Nematode. Then finally they might make Gorbachev open source.
7/25/2026, 5:42:40 PM
by: thisisnotauser
I love these posts, every week it's "Gloop is now on Ploof!"
7/25/2026, 5:30:02 PM
by: pioneerjeff
Are there any special features comparing with other decentrilized message product? Such as Nostr or XMTP？
7/25/2026, 3:06:45 PM
by: Qision
Is it Jack Dorsey who moved the repo or someone else?
7/25/2026, 6:30:54 PM
by: Mistletoe
This is the cyberpunk future I was hoping we would get…and we got something completely different, some kind of centralized corpo dystopia. I’ve installed it!
7/25/2026, 7:36:33 PM
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7/25/2026, 5:41:01 PM
by: imtringued
I hope they will enjoy fighting with <a href="https://radicle.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://radicle.dev/</a> over the project name.
7/25/2026, 4:23:10 PM
by: xyst
In theory, this could work.<p>Setup machine with bluetooth receiver.<p>Funnel packets from Bluetooth receiver over a virtual private network (ie, wireguard, tailscale, netbird).<p>Then in another state/country/continent with server connected to vpn then rebroadcasts those packets over BLE.<p>A mesh network overlayed on top of another mesh network.
7/25/2026, 5:55:02 PM
by: guess_who_is_it
jack promoted censorship when he was in twitter, now he is playing the saint card.
7/25/2026, 4:46:46 PM
by: ck2
btw what's the current state of mesh wifi?<p>seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it
7/25/2026, 4:13:58 PM
by: VCFundedGenYer
Such a terrible name. Can't believe marketing didn't catch it.
7/25/2026, 4:23:45 PM
by: zenethian
Is this bit-chat or bitch-at?
7/25/2026, 3:22:34 PM
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7/25/2026, 3:19:34 PM
by: orliesaurus
Is this irc compatible?
7/25/2026, 3:46:10 PM