I'm genuinely interested, but I'm a bit confused about the advantages.
Last I read up on Reticulum, I got this impression:
- it's not an IP routing network. You need specialized apps.
- there's a chat system that has store-and-forward behavior - if you're not online at the very moment when you get a message, it'll get replayed to you later. Which works like email. Except only one of the commonly used chat networks uses this store-and-forward thing...
- you can use different Reticulum network nodes to route traffic through, so if your personal one goes down, it'll seamlessly fail over to your friend's. However, it's not clear to me if the store-and-forward server thingy is now the single point of failure - does the storage get replicated among nodes?
Can you recommend LORA hardware to get for Reticulum? There's a zillion different offerings on the market, with half of them out of stock, some dodgy-looking options from AliExpress, and everything's more expensive than commonly discussed in forums. I'm in Europe, if it helps choose a vendor.