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You could use https://briarproject.org/ for decentralized messaging. Once someone in your decentralized network has internet connection (by moving closer to Kenya for example) all the messages they collected would be relayed to the internet

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Briar always seems awesome, but wouldn't this only work if there's people with the app installed / nodes every few meters because bluetooth's range is relatively small?

If nobody is moving around, you're right (actually the range might be greater since wifi can be used too).

If people move around, they relay the messages along their route, thus considerably extending the range.

Ah, didn't think of legs. Classic mistake

We're in 2021, we have wheels

This really didn't work too well in practicality. My friends in Myanmar tried using it.

What where the main issues?

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