Have to disagree here.
Public geo channels are nice and get people engaged, but we already had public channels before.
The real innovation is mesh chat.
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I don't disagree. But "real innovation" is irrelevant if nobody finds a good use for it and just use the global thing that is available. I have tried in some small events with friends. It's rough.
Fair point about the current UX of bitch@ but I don’t think it’s going to stay that way forever.
What is more likely to happen is that the app becomes transport agnostic eventually, be it Bluetooth, LoraWAN, nostr relays or whatever.