An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. No cell towers. No internet. Just pure peer-to-peer connectivity.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ ( yogthos@lemmy.ml ) · 8 months ago

An open source, off-grid, decentralized mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. No cell towers. No internet. Just pure peer-to-peer connectivity.

mbirth 🇬🇧 ( mbirth@lemmy.ml ) · 8 months ago

Meshtastic has issues with all those repeated status messages eating up airtime. Meshcore seems more reliable. And there’s also Reticulum.

MrSpArkle ( MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ) · 8 months ago

I’ve tried both side by side, ultimately you can tune out Meshtastic to cover a metro area pretty well. Mesh core is better at linking regions together, but ultimately it’s not fully open source. Like you gotta buy some firmwares.

My local area, and many others have active contributors to Meshtastic apps and firmware, I feel more comfort in that than reaching people in the next state over.

glitching ( glitching@lemmy.ml ) · 8 months ago

two issues with the thing. it necessitates buying shit, however inexpensive; woulda preferred repurposing existing hardware. and, it’s got practically no privacy baked in as it’s constantly blasting out your hardware ID; at least such was the state last time I took a look. the mentioned alternatives look good, I’ll check those out.