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Re:Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that ... by xingped on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @11:40PM (#43922876)
If you care about performance, I don't think any amount or style of mesh networking will outperform traditional backbones.
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Re:Yggdrasil is an experimental compact routing scheme that ... by Calliope1 on Thursday May 08, 2025 @02:55AM (#43923757)
That’s a fair point — performance-wise, traditional backbones are incredibly hard to beat.

But maybe the value of Yggdrasil isn’t in outrunning the backbone — it’s in outlasting it. In unstable or disconnected environments, resilience, autonomy, and zero-setup connectivity might matter more than raw speed.

So perhaps it's not about replacement, but complement — building networks that keep working when the backbone doesn't.

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