Post #2145812

2026-05-07 08:18 UTC

@eestileib @llorenzin there does seem to be people developing for Reticulum - I found firmware for the Cardputer ADV devices with LoRa board for example. Sure, maybe not as many people as the Mesh* projects but maybe that is an awareness/PR thing. What I like about Reticulum is that it is a transport and apps can be built on top of that. The Mesh* projects seem to be aimed at chat mainly - of course I may be wrong about this and am unaware of other uses/features. Maybe, if all the projects add transport like features then gateways could be a thing to allow comms across networks?

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@llorenzin@infosec.exchange 2026-05-07 14:20

@fionasboots @eestileib this is a totally personal take and does not reflect any technical assessment of relative benefits... TBH I actively decided not to even look at Reticulum, because Meshcore and Meshtastic meet my personal needs for my personal use cases, and it's already disruptive enough to have two incompatible projects in the same space. I got started with Meshtastic because I heard about it first (as I suspect many do), and then our mutual aid group decided to standardize on Meshcore for our urban-area use cases. Which makes perfect sense, but now I spend a good portion of my Mesh-related time walking people through the transition (both the how and the why). There's always someone who says "well if you aren't friendly to Meshtastic then fuck you, I don't want to play with you" without bothering to understand the reasons we went with Meshcore - and tbh there are very active people in our Meshcore group who are too busy to give the explanations and just say "no Meshtastic, only Meshcore, because we said so" which doesn't help either. The last thing I want is to figure out how a third incompatible system fits into this already-overcrowded niche.

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