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> Jack Dorsey is now using his clout to share about this app and bring some light on the situation Failed attempts at censorship are the best thing that could
by dguest 3mo ago
> Jack Dorsey is now using his clout to share about this app and bring some light on the situation
Failed attempts at censorship are the best thing that could ever happen to Bitchat: free advertising for a vibcoded and questionably secure entry in a space with plenty of competitors. As others have commented it's basically impossible to shut down an open source app by blocking the source distributor, but press is priceless.
I played around with Briar [1] for a while: it worked well, and had an option to install peer-to-peer without going through any app store, was sad to see that the authors put it in maintenance mode. It also had a security audit.
[1]: https://briarproject.org/ https://briarproject.org/
- upofadown 3mo agoTo avoid a potential misunderstanding, the maintenance mode is intended to continue indefinitely. Briar project is not shutting down. * https://briarproject.org/news/2026-maintenance-mode/ https://briarproject.org/news/2026-maintenance-mode/
- dguest 2mo agoYeah and I should say it's still awesome! I just used the "share offline" feature to get it on my friend's phone last weekend (we were trying to chat on a mountain with no internet). It works like a charm and isn't actually that hard to set up (you have to scan a few QR codes). I keep it on my phone even when people I use it with aren't around: having a resilient ecosystem of these apps seems like a good thing for the world.