Most people try Bitchat once, think it's cool, and never open it again. Waiting for the apocalypse.
The mesh network effect is brutal in a specific way: if your friends aren't running it in the background, you open the app and see nobody. So you close it. The next person opens it and sees nobody. So they close it.
Keep it running. When the notification shows someone's on the mesh, write to them. Not because you have something urgent to say. Because that's how networks get built.
Before sharing something with a friend - a link, a thought, whatever - ask: "Is your Bitchat on?" Make it a reflex, at least among the people who actually care about this stuff. Make the mesh appear where you are - it should shine from your device, enrich the space around you.
The mesh doesn't become useful in a crisis. It becomes useful before one, by already being how you communicate in physical spaces. Crises just reveal whether the infrastructure existed or not.
Install it, keep it running, use it.
The mesh network effect is brutal in a specific way: if your friends aren't running it in the background, you open the app and see nobody. So you close it. The next person opens it and sees nobody. So they close it.
Keep it running. When the notification shows someone's on the mesh, write to them. Not because you have something urgent to say. Because that's how networks get built.
Before sharing something with a friend - a link, a thought, whatever - ask: "Is your Bitchat on?" Make it a reflex, at least among the people who actually care about this stuff. Make the mesh appear where you are - it should shine from your device, enrich the space around you.
The mesh doesn't become useful in a crisis. It becomes useful before one, by already being how you communicate in physical spaces. Crises just reveal whether the infrastructure existed or not.
Install it, keep it running, use it.
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