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Re:Meshtastic by maccam912 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @10:58PM (#46093536)
What are those gripes? If I don't have anyone else who would use it, but would hang out in a public chat room, it didn't seem like reticulum was the right choice for that? You need destinations on things?
Re:Meshtastic by bb88 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @11:13PM (#46093634)
We have a relatively dense meshtastic in my city, and yet I can't reliably send a message across to my friend, who would be 4 hops away.

It's just not awesome. Especially compared to what you can do with ham radio.

Re:Meshtastic by iberator on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:50AM (#46094434)
You must live in nyc or san Francisco lol
Re:Meshtastic by NegativeLatency on Sunday November 30, 2025 @01:56AM (#46094457)
It’s pretty dense in Portland and Seattle too, I’d image most of the bigger cities have a fairly large net
Re:Meshtastic by bb88 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:56AM (#46097666)
Boise, actually.
Re:Meshtastic by PBnFlash on Saturday November 29, 2025 @11:17PM (#46093671)
It seems like big cities get congested, on marginal systems the chances of only getting half the messages is very high. It really dosnt integrate with much else, the mqtt stuff seems unreliable.

It does seem like the RNode radios are a lot less mature but they seem to be aiming to be less of a toy.