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Knit - offline peer-to-peer messaging - added to fDroid this week (f-droid.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by merde@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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sounds like it can replace Briar?

An offline, serverless mesh messenger for Android — end-to-end encrypted, no internet, no accounts, no Google Play services.

Your phones talk directly to each other over Wi-Fi Aware and Bluetooth LE, and relay for one another hop by hop.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.getknit.knit/
https://github.com/getknit/knit

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[-] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Fair enough, I figured I might as well ask though.

It turns out you cannot send explicit images in Nearby Chat, nor use any swear words or worse. It seems like it's detecting words from a list and images based on some kind of simple nudity model.

There is no way to disable this in Nearby Chat.

In one-to-one messages, you can send explicit messages only if you agree to a warning, and view them only if you click a warning too. You are allowed to use at least some curse words (e.g. "fuck"), but other things are still blocked.

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