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Post #2160531

2026-05-07 14:20 UTC

@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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  • @fionasboots@tech.lgbt 2026-05-08 15:22

    @llorenzin@infosec.exchange yeah, I can totally understand that, it's a constant problem in IT where there are competing options and no time/money/effort available for either a standard or bridges. I've not looked into Meshcore at the moment and Meshtastic doesn't have huge coverage where I am (more rural). My plan is to host a Meshtastic router at home which, when mounted on the outside wall of the house will hopefully help increase coverage. I'm also actively investigating Reticulum because, while Mesh* are good they seem to be LoRa only (for obvious technical reasons). Reticulum on the other hand covers TCP, LoRa, KISS (radio) and some others so messages can hop all over the place. Ultimately I'm expecting to have Meshtastic + Reticulum setup which gives options/redundancy in comms and security etc. I notice a name I recognise with Meshcore, Liam Cottle who also seems to have done significant work on Reticulum and Meshtastic :) @eestileib@tech.lgbt

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