Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information to mainland visitors

Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ... by wyc on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:00PM (#20396528)

is there any open source alternative to firechat (https://www.opengarden.com/firechat/), which seems to now require internet account creation prior to use?

something imbued with cryptography that communicates purely via local peer discovery/hopping such as wifi/bluetooth/optical signaling, etc.

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Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ... by lukewrites on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:36PM (#20396900)

This is one of the edge cases that makes me dislike Apple's walled garden. The Chinese gvt can simply request that Apple remove firechat and other decentralized chat apps from the App Store and that's that.

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Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ... by xgulfie on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @07:16PM (#20397734)

Manyverse (built on Secure Scuttlebutt: https://manyver.se) works over Bluetooth, WAN and WLAN, does not support direct messaging yet though.

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Re:Hong Kong’s protesters use AirDrop to spread information ... by r3drock on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:05PM (#20397152)

There is briar.

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