Or a misspelling of bitch hat

It depends on whom you’re talking to

Yes, it's in the first paragraph of https://bitchat.free/.

Yep.

Yes :)

Works over Bluetooth mesh offline and Nostr online.

Relevant discussion yesterday:

> “Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49036433

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Sounds like a suitable addition to the ATProto ecosystem :)

I'm pretty sure that's the same project.

I assumed they are the same :-O

It could be deliberate. Like Wechat's Chinese name is "Weixin", which is a pun on "for sex" in Mandarin (for which its "people nearby" feature originally saw heavy usage). As a decentralized social network, Bitchat might see similar usage.

Probably on purpose. Like "Broken, But Whole"

Everything is pointing towards a hard "no", but I didn't dig deeper than literally read the first sentence in the README:

> A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging app with dual transport architecture: local Bluetooth mesh networks for offline communication and internet-based Nostr protocol for global reach. No accounts, no phone numbers, no central servers. It's the side-groupchat.

How would it be? Bitchat is for offline communication over Bluetooth Low Energy networks

It's explicitly in opposition to ATProto. That's probably why they went with Radicle and not Tangled

Have you ever heard of the rather excellent Pen Island, vendors of fine pens? On my work computer, so you can plumb the internet archive for yourself.

One seems to be built on top of the other? Very confusing though, I agree.

I think radicle.dev is the software that lets you store issues and PRs inside a Git repo, and radicle.network is some kind of interface to people's hosts that run the Radicle software. Something like that?

I agree it's super confusing though and their explanation isn't exactly clear:

https://radicle.network/principles