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Technology@beehaw.org · 6 months ago

FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.

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FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.

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Technology@beehaw.org · 6 months ago

With FireChat, people were free to communicate and coordinate with each other without the message having to first filter through someone's data center. Why did the app shut down without notice?

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Should have been open sourced from day one.
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  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.

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