Title. I know that this is a pretty niche question, but I figure there is probably a lot of overlap with people who are into the fediverse and people who are into mesh radio networks.

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

Perusing/learning, I didn't get far enough to actually getting hardware. Still might in the future because I like the concept, but I distracted myself by running a Matrix server instead.

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

    If you're interested in that sort of thing but don't want to bother with the hardware then you should check out the reticulum network. It's pretty neat. It's basically like meshtastic, only it doesn't just use LoRa frequencies. It can use LoRa frequencies, but it can also use other radio frequencies, or Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, or whatever really. So you can just access it using your Wi-Fi, no hardware needed right away. But because it can work with whatever medium you like can create a mesh network at a global scale, rather than just connecting with people in your area. I think the long term goal is to create a new, second internet that is more private and more resilient to disaster scenarios or state censorship. It's pretty neat.

    You can use it to browse pages on the 'NomadNet' which is basically like what the internet was like in the late 80s. You can browse through your terminal, though there is a graphical interface for it called MeshChatX, though I've never really used it (the terminal works fine imo, but it's not everyone's cup of tea). There's a community for it here on Lemmy, though it's not very active. !Reticulum@mander.xyz

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

    Interesting. I'll reply in more depth later, but I just read a lot of their docs. Have you played with it at all?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago

    Yeah, I’ve been playing around with it a bit lately. I haven’t really read much of the docs I just dove in and I’m learning as I go. I haven’t really got a handle on DMing people on it yet but I’ve been browsing the nomad net and talking to people on the forums there and its been pretty interesting. I like to just announce my presence then see all the pages that pop up. A lot of them have low uptime in our area so you’ll be unable to connect, and a lot of them are nothing special, but there are a lot of gems. It’s hard to distinguish the good sites from the bad sites on the outset, you just got to visit a bunch of random pages and save the ones you like. At least that’s what I’ve been doing. I’m sure there’s a more efficient way (I think someone out there created a reticulum search engine?) but this trail-and-error system has been working fine for me so far

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