Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain.

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  In the context of the US fascist dictatorship and Apple being the dominant smartphone there, starting with Apple makes sense.

  If it can be done within Apples curated monopoly, it will be technically possible on Android (probably).

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• Eldritch@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don't trust Jack. But this does seem marginally interesting. Actually decentralized, no servers supposedly. We'll have to see. Again I sure as hell I'm not going to trust dorsey. And he's got it under some cringey edgelord "unlicense" license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name. The actual concept seems intriguing. But definitely nothing to get excited about currently.

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One thing I personally like more about this than about Briar - routing of messages.

    It seems Briar exchanges state of the groups with the neighboring devices, they with their neighbors, and so on.

    That might take a few iterations (thus delay) to propagate a message from, say, one side of the crowd to another, and leave different members with different state all the time.

    While here, apparently, messages are routed further immediately. From my own toying around - not the best thing too, but initiating synchronization by sender\relay and not by recipient seems sane.

    Maybe should rewrite the toy to be nicer. It seems to be closer to real world things than I thought.

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  • Pro@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And he’s got it under some cringey edgelord “unlicense” license which basically appears to be MIT just with a different name.

    Bro, Public Domain.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He used different terms in different places. And to be frank, I'm not sure I'd heard about unlicense before. But upon closer look it does seem to be a the goal. Despite not being valid or applicable in a few jurisdictions.

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      • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        spdx.org/licenses/Unlicense.html

        opensource.org/license/unlicense

        these two institutions endorse the license

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  • sit_up_straight@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    youtube-dl and yt-dlp are under unlicense. it’s just standard legalese for public domain

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  From the description it seems to be rather clean. And perhaps not to be limited to Apple for too long.

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