Post #1491308
2026-03-13 06:52 UTC
@kudra @daks "Reticulum is interesting because of the ideology, to resist corporate capture and retain community control."
Absolutely. People are trying to escape a cyberpunk like dystopian world where corporations rule the world, I get it.
My main issue with that is technical, people repeat old mistakes. In other words: learn from history, do not reinvent it, badly.
Experimentation is great for studying the mechanisms. But not for production. Scaling to millions of users is really hard.
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@kudra@aus.social 2026-03-13 07:52
@marsik @daks fair comment! Meshtastic have certainly learned how difficult it is to scale, and Meshcore has, interestingly, started from a slightly less than true "mesh" as it separates nodes into two main roles, and one role is the "infrastructure" and the other role is the "user" - but users are operating both, so it's still oriented around mesh ideals, just learning from others mistakes, heh. It will be interesting to see how Reticulum scales if it starts getting more widespread adoption: what problems do you anticipate with their approach?