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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[–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 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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