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2026-03-13 07:52 UTC
@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?
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@marsik@witter.cz 2026-03-13 08:26
@kudra @daks Different problems show up at different stages of growth. I have seen it before with community networks even at small scale: - First people are enthusiastic about building the independent network. - Then the maintenance cost shows up, hardware fails and has to be replaced etc. - The less enthusiastic people demand reliability. - The more complex the network is, the higher the cost of maintenance and soon you need dedicated full time technicians. And suddenly, you are an ISP.