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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fact, but since that’s common and cheap, and I’m not aware of an equivalent FOSS alternative, I’d go with Meshtastic, if were to dabble. And I dabble. :D

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  • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I believe the only part of Meshcore that’s not FOSS is the official app, and there’s a FOSS alternative.

    Personally, I’d use Meshcore. I tried MT for a month or so. I never saw a conversation, just a few scattered “test” messages. Meanwhile, on MC, I was away from my phone for 4 hours yesterday and came back to 250+ coherent messages in a conversation from all over the region (not to mention the hundreds of test messages).

    MT is better in ad-hoc situations since clients can repeat messages.

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    • sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s interesting. I had the same experience with Meshtastic - I ran it for a few months and almost all I saw were test messages and comments about the weather. That encourages me to dig out my radio bits and try MC 😆

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      • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Do it!

        Here’s what it looks like around me: analyzer.letsmesh.net/channels?region=pnw

        I’d check the map to see if there are repeaters around your area.

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    • Jesus_666@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.

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