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Should have been open sourced from day one.
Agreed. Work on capitalist principles and you end up becoming beholden to capitalist principles.
If it could be made once, could it be done again? Main thing is adoption I think, not unlike Lemmy.
This briarproject in the other comment looks similar and open source.
access to FireChat was completely cut off without explanation.
After establishing that FireChat establishes its own, independent mesh network, I would have at least expected more details on how it was cut off? Did it simply became unavailable on the publishers distribution? The followup text seems to indicate otherwise. Did Google and Apple as app publishers actively revoke access to already installed apps? Did the Open Garden publisher have a disabling functionality in place? Did they publish an update to disable it?
Without any information, it’s hard to say why FireChat disappeared. […]
FireChat is gone because FireChat was a threat to the systems it circumvented.
“Nobody knows anything, but let me claim this anyway.”