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I like how we supposedly have the serval mesh project but no APKs available any more or ever in iOS. I just wish we'd all pick one like Briar or Bridgefy to be
by Multicomp 7y ago
I like how we supposedly have the serval mesh project but no APKs available any more or ever in iOS. I just wish we'd all pick one like Briar or Bridgefy to be the good enough default.
Heck, F Droid has Meshenger but it barely worked. Firechat and bridgefy are closed source so therefore compromised, so this is not an easy solve.
- smush 7y agoYou are correct that the APK download at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproject&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproj... is dead. However, you can still download it from https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.servalproject/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.servalproject/ RE: Briar, I've tested it before. It's a promising app idea, and generally has good UI, but I ran into a few issues I'll post for consideration/refutation. My results were hit or miss as to whether messages would get delivered if both apps were open, one was open, one was closed, one or both were online, offline, or a mix. It's unclear as to whether it is supposed to work 'online' via Tor nodes or not, the documentation is confusing. Getting an answer to the question "will this work over normal cellular data?" has no definitive answer.
- lufte 7y agoI didn't know about Serval, Briar nor Bridgefy. I did know about Firechat, and there's also p2pkit [1] but this one is closed source as well. [1] - http://p2pkit.io/ http://p2pkit.io/