That's too bad. Anyone know of a fork or similar project? Maybe Meshtastic/MeshCore/BitChat. Berty Messenger's last update on iOS was in January 2025.

Instead of a fork, there is completely new development going on here: https://github.com/geograms/aurora

BLE/LoRa/radio/internet mesh with reticulum that combines chat, social and torrents over NOSTR (decentralized protoocol).

Still beta, around August should be stable.

No way am I going to trust a heavily LLM-generated app as a replacement to Briar...

Geogram started even before AIs were available for coding.

I'm a dinosaur but you remind those complaining in the 90s that Turbo Pascal wasn't real programming because it was too easy to copy code and compile.

I don't have a team of developers nor funding to hire them. AI amplifies by 26 times what I can do in a year. It was never about the code, what matters is what you do with it.

Claude is the only contributor? 100% vibed.

MeshCore is growing rapidly. Check out this map of CascadiaMesh - connectivity all the way from Vancouver down to Klamath Falls, and now east to Spokane:

https://cascadiamesh.org/map/

https://docs.cwtch.im/ has P2P Onion Service based messaging.