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 # RippleChat
-2023 © Severin Memmishofer, Sebastian Lenzlinger
+RippleChat is a meant to be a TinySSB compatible chat client. It is started as a university project as a proof of concept for p2p messaging in a Secure Scuttlebut fashion on iOS.
+At this stage it communicates via BLE.
+It is not currently compatible with TinySSB conforming apps like (Tremola)[https://github.com/cn-uofbasel/tremola].
+Future work inlcudes switching to the tinySSB protocol and heavily beautifying th UI.
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