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  • To expand on what others have said:

    Meshtastic:

    Has more users
    Has really good info on traceroutes, historical details on signal strength, etc…

    MeshCore:

    Messages often get recieved because of a better* algorithm (much higher hop limit). Chat feature makes a node into a chatroom. Messages get saved and anyone logging in can see messages.

    Both are good. I wish they did more work interop TBH. But both are in their early days. reticulum is also another protocol in the space. Much harder to set up but actually is more like everyone things of a mesh network (websites are hosted/viewed via multiple ways).

    Ive worked and contributed to both mesh projects. They have VERY similar hardware so its really just differences between what you want to play around with. In an actual emergency though…walkie talkies are MUCH better (as well as ARPA).

    !meshtastic@mander.xyz is where we hang out.







  • I built an ebook reader out of an old heltek since I have an abundance of those recently. It was fun.

    Been making loquat bread. Basically take any basic white/wheat bread recipe and replace any sugar with loquat. Its VERY good and tastes almost the same. At some point, my wife and I are planning on making loquat wine (and/or fruit juice?). We have two mature trees that produce enough that the whole neighborhood gets the fruit and we still have left overs!





  • There has been instances already where instances have disappeared, been defereated, and or just failed to keep up with the new changes in the protocols we all call home.

    People have migrated pretty quick to other instances, other communities, etc…etc…

    For example I was on lemmy.world for a good year or so before piefed. And they are both excellent platforms! Jumping instances is actually really easy and you dont lose much.

    Jumping instances, making your own, etc…etc… are things you cant really do outside the fediverse. You cant just spin up a twitter clone an expect it to interop with twitter outside giving massive $$ to API costs (and thats if THEY allow it). Here I have spun up my own lemmy/piefed/mastodon/gotosocial/peertube instances and communicated with people on the respective platforms.

    In a nutshell we have more control to do what we want. If I dont like what piefed and rimu/others are doing, I can fork and make a mesa-piefed with flapjacks and other things. And it will work with lemmy.world day 1.

    We have the power. Thats what makes us different.