Open benhylau opened 5 years ago
the Fdroid app does indeed have no Google dep (it's the main selling point).
How important is internet-less bootstrapping (in terms of distributing the iOS app)? Is the plan to build a faraday cage over the camp or something? O:-)
Probably useful for testing the server locally: https://github.com/dweb-camp-2019/meshnet/blob/master/testnet/README.md
@ara4n we'll likely have Internet at the site now that we got a local ISP to build a tower to relay some internets over. I will be able to check this out first week of July.
BUT we are thinking to do some Internet blackout hours 😉 so how are we with the timeline^ ?
Motivation
If there is no Internet, how do people message one another on a local network? Apps like Slack will not be able to reach their centralized servers, and most other apps including Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram... will also stop working due to the same problem of inability to reach their servers. We need a locally hosted chat server that can work:
According to @ara4n this should be okay:
Android should work since Riot Android is already distributed on F-Droid, though we should confirm it has no hidden Google Play Services dependency... For iOS, bootstrap is a bit more tricky:
And whether we can start Internet-synced history, then carry the room & chat history over to the local network:
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