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I think I'm going to have to go against the norm here and come out as anti bitchat.

Correct me if I got any points wrong.

A billionaire made a "mesh" chat app marketed as independent of the internet.

The range of the mesh is absolutely fucking useless so they added internet chat so you don't uninstall immediately.

The gimmick mesh with useless range means you must keep precise location enabled at all times. This isn't just coordinates but also the ability to log every bluetooth device nearby you.

The major news media keeps writing articles about how downloads of it spike after the internet is shut off in a country. (Think about this for 30 seconds please)

How am I the first person to say this looks like a honeypot? Uninstalled.
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Globe99 4d ago

Wait, why do you require location enabled to use the "mesh"?

I agree with some of this.. always thought the Mesh was the useful part, but only in an emergency. The chat pretty much just duplicates 1000 other things, poorly...

But IDK about "honeypot"... Isn't this all open source, at least the Android port by nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg4waehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46qqgzsm98u9kzcp35zkpc62shck8335gqtq5yt4w26xwl0pp2a72qavvyexdky ?

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Bill Cypher 4d ago

Did you pay attention when you installed it? Full time precise location because that is the permission android uses for Bluetooth and the mesh is BLE.

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Hofer99 4d ago

How would it work with graphene

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ABH3PO 4d ago

It works fine

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Bill Cypher 4d ago

Still just a single permission for Bluetooth and location on GrapheneOS

source, I use GrapheneOS and that is where I tested bitchat.

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Globe99 4d ago

Did not realize that. I assumed the location was required for the Geochat, which I don't care about. Didn't know that was important for BLE...

Reading around it seems like Android 12 might be introducing some more fine-grain control on that, which would be good...