bitchat 1.2.0 (purple) shipping to testflight tonight.
this enables mutual favorites to automatically switch to a nostr-based transport when one of them leaves the mesh. only for private messages for now using NIP-17.
basically people can bitchat in person, favorite each other at that time, and then can continue the conversation if internet is available through nostr, from any distance. no need to input a npub or know anything about nostr. it just works.
https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat/pull/358
I was hoping something like this would happen.
Would be great to have it as communities too.
Let's say Eg you form a huge mesh at Glastonbury, you can then make a nostr-baswd community Glastonbury 2025, or a football match, you then make eg Manchester United Group.
Perhaps options to only have access to the group if you've been involved in a mesh.
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Rate my stupid idea for bitch@ from stupid (10) to not stupid (0). Thank you. #asknostr
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Apparently football matches suffer from poor/no mobile phone reception, I didn't actually know this, it came up in conversation with a football-going friend. I know festivals/carnivals suffer from this and obviously protests. Makes sense that large sporting events would also suffer from this really.
Any large gathering that overwhelms the towers with traffic 💯
Any kind of music festival or large protest has the same issue.
In Nimbin during the mardigrass every year same thing happens.
10 thousand people show up to a town of a few hundred. Half of them try to Livestream etc. nobody has phone reception the entire 3 days.
Ooh that's a great point.
So you start a mesh with irl friends and then everyone is added to a nostr community. The proof of work is having been in the mesh. Great idea
Makes it harder for spammers/scammers
Also a great on-boarding flow for nostr. You leverage the Jack marketing to get your friends to try the cool Bluetooth app. Next thing they know, once they leave the mesh they all have nostr keypairs and already part of a community of people they know. Genius
Are you working on anything like this maybe. 8 think this could work here. You can enter the community either via Bluetooth mesh and/ or an invite🤔
No idea on the technical here lol
