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  • Well I should say Scuttlebut can facilitate peer relay messaging, it can also facilitate direct peer to peer messaging I’m which case yes the messages queue up until you connect.

    There are different kinds of relay systems as well for different use cases, like direct private messaging relays that key all messages encrypted but pass messages whenever either peer checks the node, but also one client to private group messages which functions more like WhatsApp communities, Telegram channels, etc. There isn’t exactly a “public open channel” system, but some groups broadcast their public keys widely so people can join them.

    There are also other social functions, it has been built out quite a bit since I last checked in on it.











  • That said, didn’t hird basically die because Linux gained critical mass faster and peeled off the core developers? It would be nice to imagine another bottom-up mobile OS emerging and stealing the thunder of this one, but it seems like the hope here is that Libre Phone will gravitate in some of the devs from the existing top-down open phone projects. Who knows if that will work.

    One thing I wouldn’t count out right now though: China is very much in favor of getting software and hardware monopolies out from the control of US companies. Free/open(ish) LLMs are the big example, maybe they will jump on this to try and break Google’s stranglehold on the mobile market.