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#Meshtastic and #Meshcore are the gateway drug. #Reticulum (or something similar) should be the endgame.
If we're serious about network resilience and real independence from third-party infrastructure, not just being hobbyist cool, we need a technology-agnostic convergence layer rather than depending on LoRa for everything.
@michael ha thank you for the heads-up! I'm already addicted to self-hosting as it is... another addictive hobby? Sign me up 🙊 😂
@_elena You know...I have a project that uses #yunohost and #meshtastic together. Maybe I should do a blog post or something.
Its a once a day weather report for my region. It posts at around 6:00 am the weather pulled from NWS. Its useful both as a weather report but also a test to see if people get the messages. If they do, they know their node is in a good spot.
Looks like this:
My experience of the #fediverse :
Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.
Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.
Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.
Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁♀️
@_elena pretty much my journey since birdsite was bought! On the #selfhosting part, though, I went with my own home server running #FreeBSD (ZFS is awesome!).
And regarding #meshtastic, I must warn you that it's a drug. This year I went from "zero" to "regional community builder / crazy dude deploying stealth nodes in trees" in a matter of months 😅 Just so you know what to expect!
#Meshtastic and #Meshcore are the gateway drug. #Reticulum (or something similar) should be the endgame.
If we're serious about network resilience and real independence from third-party infrastructure, not just being hobbyist cool, we need a technology-agnostic convergence layer rather than depending on LoRa for everything.
I traveled #Iran some years ago and my thoughts are with the friends and wonderful people I met there.
There are horrible massacres going on, and the dictators have shut down the internet to suppress images and information from reaching the outside world.
We nerds can't do much to help with a 'regime change' there now, besides raising public attention. But can we build a reliable communication system with #Reticulum, #Briar, #Meshtastic, #Meshcore that helps in similar future situations?
The recording of the talk “The Meshiverse OR The Revolution of the Little Radios” has been released.
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/KUZUWX-off-grid_communication_cyberpunk_and_autonomy/
#Meshtastic #Meshcore #bitchat #reticulum #LoRa #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026
for any #radio hackers like me fiddling with #meshtastic there's a project called #Reticulum that is new to me but clearly some of you are using or reading about too. Here's my highlights from the 'internet killer' video on youtube and a Ghostreader summary comparing the two: https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kjda0w6q4kwpmpb1hnx2dpze
I really like technology like this and I'm excited to see options for resilient signaling and communication networks that don't rely on infrastructure we don't own.
I can't put my finger on it but I have been seeing more content about #meshtastic #meshcore and #Reticulum recently.
Maybe it's my algorithms but I've had IRL friends bring it up independently and we've all already built/bought radios and joined our local net (meshtastic for now).
As I'm learning more about these projects, the more I think we could get a real effective mesh going, even if for basic comms at first.
More evidence we need a form of mesh network peer to peer bridge to the open social web for time of internet blackouts. #iran
I can't put my finger on it but I have been seeing more content about #meshtastic #meshcore and #Reticulum recently.
Maybe it's my algorithms but I've had IRL friends bring it up independently and we've all already built/bought radios and joined our local net (meshtastic for now).
As I'm learning more about these projects, the more I think we could get a real effective mesh going, even if for basic comms at first.
