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Re:Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum by 405nm on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @01:54AM (#47332120)
i like it a lot, being agnostic to communication channel sets it apart from the lora only meshes. it’s cool to be able to use a mesh device to communicate with people who are both on and off the mainline internet seamlessly.

and there’s some cool stuff happening on nomadnet as well l

oh yeah and there’s a voice chat protocol that works over lora, too

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Re:Mesh over Bluetooth LE, TCP, or Reticulum by fc417fc802 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:05AM (#47332469)
> communicate with people who are both on and off the mainline internet seamlessly.

I feel like trying to do that at the protocol level might be the wrong level of abstraction. Different fabrics have very different properties. Seems like the app is the more appropriate level for seamlessly communicating via different fabrics.

Like if I try to send a video to someone but they're currently only visible to me via lora the software probably shouldn't try to push a huge blob of data over that particular medium. But I probably do want the option of sending and receiving large blobs in general, just restricted to high bandwidth connections.

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