Okay. But one of my points still stands that there are already a bunch of p2p Bluetooth-based messaging apps out there.

Move bitch get out the way

QuickShare, AirDrop and LocalSend all use WiFi, which can be a problem when using a VPN (it is for me).

And more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked

Airdrop is two people at a time. Say we had a group of 8 people I don’t want to do 7 air drop exchanges to get all the photos.

Turn it off temporarily?

Right but turning the VPN off invalidates the purpose of using a VPN. And even if it didn't, it's not convenient to disable on both devices and then turn it back on. The whole purpose of this software is convenience.

Yeah, fuck Jack.

Seems rehashed, with more enshittification likely to be baked in. Typical tech bros.

I mean, what is actually needed is a secure messaging app that scrapes wraps existing apps. So when two people send messages through FancyMessages, they are secure. But then if only one person has FancyMessages, and the other has Facebook messenger, then they could still comminicate - the FB user using Messenger as usual, and our hero's FancyMessages app picking up the FB messages and passing them on through the FancyMessages UI.

I'm happy to see a niche decentralized thing from Jack more than if it was another commercial start-up. And I have nothing against yet another bluetooth chat. But I'm not impressed. In the whitepaper nothing is written about spam protection, so it wouldn't work as a reliable P2P app at scale. And the UI... It's mere a toy for Jack's personal nostalgia about "the good old times". And nostalgia driven development doesn't work in general, I would say.

I read it like that first and thought it was one of these illegal apps to track your partner without them knowing.

Sounds like the problem is your vpn client if you cant chose what traffic goes into it

If you're in Bluetooth range can't you chat with your mouths? Or is it for secretly chatting when you're in a group of people? I don't get the use case.

Neat idea 10 years ago "discovered" recently by a tech bro who thinks he's the first one to think of it. He got his clicks, I guess.

The best app to Bitch At things.

I have no idea if this is correct. But imagine if you have a setup like Apple’s AirTag. Except when you receive a signal (message) you also relay it to whoever’s path you cross for the next X amount of time. The more people using the app the bigger the mesh network gets.

Bluetooth ranges are quite large now.

But an example even if someone is a foot away would be a concert or event where it's to loud.

You can blame whatever or whoever you want, the problem remains.

Beeper is like this, but the list of supported messaging apps is limited. It does have FB messenger though.