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Does self hosting your own internet count? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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There's a live stream tomorrow on the 'tube setting up a MeshCore companion for sending messages over radio waves directly instead of relying on internet providers.

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[–] 48 points 9 months ago* (10 children)

BTW, Meshcore is MIT and not fully FOSS, while Meshtastic is GPL and fully FOSS.

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    And both use LoRa which is proprietary.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Fact, but since that's common and cheap, and I'm not aware of an equivalent FOSS alternative, I'd go with Meshtastic, if were to dabble. And I dabble. :D

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    I believe the only part of Meshcore that's not FOSS is the official app, and there's a FOSS alternative.

    Personally, I'd use Meshcore. I tried MT for a month or so. I never saw a conversation, just a few scattered "test" messages. Meanwhile, on MC, I was away from my phone for 4 hours yesterday and came back to 250+ coherent messages in a conversation from all over the region (not to mention the hundreds of test messages).

    MT is better in ad-hoc situations since clients can repeat messages, but MC is better for establishing a region-wide communication network.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    A license doesn't have to be copyleft to be FOSS. Stop trying to redefine things because you don't like them.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    That's not what I did. Not all of Meshcore is FOSS. There are proprietary components. Therefore it's not fully FOSS.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh sorry, I thought "Meshcore is MIT" meant it was all MIT.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    All good!

    I still value GPL much higher than MIT, which is why I thought important for others to know, in case they have a preference too. But yeah, Meshcore is just not all open source and some people could also have a preference on that. 😄

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