I assume you mean because of size limits.

ooooh my bad i thought i read “8 bits” not “8 bytes” so i thought that was a little low for anything :D :D

because the point of this feature is to emulate group chats, where that’s desired

Isn’t there other ways to do so? Like using a group identifier? Or hashing the addresses?

I wasn’t confident enough in any particular one to want to use it as a transport.

Very good point. I would say as long as you don’t do anything particular on the network, remaining transport-agnostic is a good idea so that people can route over Tor/I2P or any other network of their choice.

(Briar) The main reason I wrote it off was for requiring a phone

Why would Briar require a phone? It should work perfectly on Anbox emulator, and i personally can’t wait for a proper desktop/TUI client :)