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I've gotten some shell scripts with a not too terrible interface for sending messages to a group of users that can be discovered from them putting route blobs into the DHT.

The scripts are pretty rough atm.

I named them netchat-[stuff] and they use some hardcoded paths.

All the veilid-hacks stuff has expected itself to run in ~/projects/veilid-hacks because I can't be fucked to do something like.. ~/.veilid-hacks or ~/.cache/veilid-hacks or... whatever.

I also have my scripts expect the rest of them to be in the $PATH, so have fun with that.

anyway, if you still want to try to use them, you can do:

$ cd ~
$ mkdir projects
$ cd projects
$ git clone git://git.thebackupbox.net/veilid-hacks
$ cd veilid-hacks
$ mkdir -p keys
$ mkdir -p netchat_routes
$ make install
$ netchat-watch-appmsgs
[some output, including your route-blob]

if netchat-watch-appmgs fails because it couldn't fetch your own DHT key, uh, wait a minute and try again I guess.

maybe comment out that check. it isn't actually that important.

then in a second terminal, you can try netchat-discover -g to search the DHT for anyone who has published their route-blob with 'netchat ' prepended.

Once you have a coule route_blobs in ~/projects/veilid-hacks/netchat_routes named after their route_id you can actually send stuff to them using:

$ netchat-send 'a message'

It'll loop over that directory, import all the routes just in case, then send an appmessage to them.

Anyway. I figured I'd at least get this out of my head before I go to bed.