We have meshtastic, which is a mesh network for radio communications. How can we create something like that for the internet? And, ideally, how do we then host the fediverse platforms on it?

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (8 children)

You don't the bandwidth is too low it would be more a bbs.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Oh god I’m old.

    It’s, it’s basically a forum. A Bulletin Board System. Back from the days where you measured your bandwidth in baud.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    Bulletin Board System. Imagine if you had to connect to each Lemmy instance individually to read the collected posts. That's sort of what BBSes were. A person's computer hosting a forum of posts, that you'd connect through their phone number. The new use of that term with mesh is I think the same idea, individual connections and not a broad one like the internet is.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yea but it would be fine for the important shit like news, weather, alerts. Especially for neighborhood mesh alert systems.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yeah only issue is if everyone was checking or posting their own updates through the mesh it would get bogged down with collisions. But that might improve if there more devices in a given area. Right now you have Bottleneck's where there is only one link between 2 groups nodes.

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