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Comment by tehlike | Hacker News Reader

Meshtastic, reticulum, meshcore... We need more.

I was thinking the same thing. We do need more. I set up a Meshtastic node at the house and joined https://chicagolandmesh.org/ which has been a fantastic community for beginners in mesh based comms.

Question, what do you do with the network?

you use it to access the internet, but the point is if the internet access is disabled you still have a local network for p2p communication across the city. also multiple people/hubs in the network can provide provide internet access over different ISPs providing resilience if some ISPs go down, but not all of them.

freifunk in germany and funkfeuer in austria do the same thing.

reticulum, in theory, can go over any medium. Radio or internet, whichever is present.

But here it shows another problem: who controls the distribution channel, they also control which program can be found and installed (by the mass) and which not.

Without a critical mass of adoption, mesh applications are largely useless.

You think the spooks are just sitting and watching people using other tech unmonitored and do nothing about it?

No, not doing nothing. They are probably funding it, like Tor, as this kind of technology is useful in intelligence and the promotion and sustainment of foreign resistance movements.

(For once my tax dollars are producing something I appreciate, even if I don’t love the reason behind it.)

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