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Post #1551584
2026-01-25 09:36 UTC
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@gkaklas@lemmy.zip 2026-01-25 10:09
> you're going to want to buy some LoRa devices anyway Yes, but you're not *forced to*; you can have nodes in your city that use any radio they want to communicate to each other, and e.g. your local hackerspace can have a node with multiple radios that bridges them to other nodes on the global network With Meshtastic™®©, if your country bans LoRa™®© radios you simply don't have any other option, so the whole network is just done. With Reticulum or any other agnostic network they can't ban *all* radio modules that can be used > Reticulum is pretty much developed by a single person. Hmm that's unfortunate, I didn't know that 😕 But that's a chicken-and-egg and network effect problem; we shouldn't be "forced" (network effect) to use something that is not ideal just because more people use/develop it, otherwise we will never have a better alternative, because no one wants to develop it because no one is using it because no one wants to develop it At least for me, dedicating energy to build a Meshtastic™®© node would feel like I'm making something that profits LoRa™®© and Meshtastic LLC without trusting the "independence" of its every aspect. It transfers the dependence from the ISP that brings the wire to the home, to the companies that make Meshtastic™®© and LoRa™®©, but it's still a dependence on one or two external companies instead of an independent community like I've seen with other local WMNs over the years (I don't have the experience to say that Reticulum is the best option, but it's the main agnostic network I've seen with the little search I've done; people reading this feel free to make suggestions! 💚)