bitchat downloads are spiking in jamaica.
we've seen spikes in regions of civil unrest before. this is the first spike in response to a natural disaster.
our thoughts are with the people of jamaica. we hope you and your friends and families are safe.
please be careful.
It would be cool to see the data. Is this iOS app store stats?
google play
Nice. So I'll be able to see comms by teleporting to #d71 ? I don't see much at the moment, am I doing something wrong?
most comms may be happening over BLE only right now, power and internet are down
How does the mesh work? Does every user have to broadcast to the web or can any device in the mesh with internet access relay messages to the web?
To the best of my understanding, each device has to broadcast to the web itself, if that's what it wants to do. In the mesh, nobody broadcasts to the web.
The orange pill app has the option to send sats to a whole region.
https://signup.orangepillapp.com/opa/keo
How?
- Go to your lightning wallet in the app
- Send
- Write the country or region
- Select and choose how many sats you want to send
- Add an optional message
But it needs Internet. BitChat works over Bluetooth if you don't use geohash chats.
It will certanly help. Thanks for the good work sir
This has probably saved life's - thanks calle / jack 🙏
That's pretty cool.
Would be amazing if bitchat could send the apk to another user's phone over bluetooth
via bitchat?
Yes, like the app came with a package so that in grid down no internet you could share the app
you're going to send bitchat via bitchat to another user who doesn't have bitchat you mean?
yes, would be cool for a bitchat user to tap "send bitchat" and drop it onto another device without it, like an airdrop but a "bitdrop"
Maybe you can share an apk another way from a phone to another phone but may be simple for not techy user to share the app when you can't download it in a grid down.
well, can't it be done via Bluetooth? only the download is slower
I don't know if my suggestion was retard or not 🤣
Briar does something like this, tried it once, was a little rough around the edges, but it worked.
Yes true, Briar is also able to do this and has worked over bluetooth for years. I would seriously prefer Briar over Bitchat for this internet-is-down use case.
I'm all for multiple options, but I'd agree in this case, Briar has been used in the field for years, and has all the necessary features. It's the only offline messenger that's ready to go right now.
Yes, it would be great, even needed for such use cases. F-Droid have (has? didn't try for a long time) this option to share the F-Droid apk over bluetooth and then host a kind of local repo to allow anyone on the same local network to download apk of the app you have installed, without internet.
Sovereign, resilient, tech.
Absolutely love this. 👏
stealth download bitchat onto your family members’ phones today, it may save their lives someday
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