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You can mesh together WIFI, LoRA, HaLow, the lora devices can be the same stuff you run meshtastic on. End-to-end encrypted. sourceless transmissions. You can route over i2p and classic internet for some rather reasonable privacy.
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IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 16 hours agoI wish it was possible, Imagine mixing meshtastic with tcp/ip. it would be as slow as mid 90s, but forums/text based internet that doesn’t rely on anything but communal decentralized infrastructure?
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JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 16 hours ago
Meshcore might be a bit better suited for this, if you want to reach a forum further than 50-100km away reliably.
With the room servers it almost supports this use case already
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
would be cool to make a browser and server that work with mesh[core/static]. and given the need for very basic and extremely lightweight websites and services, or even APIs, making a website/api shouldn’t be too complicated.
One can have a weather station and I can have a weather app that makes API calls through mesh[].
decentralized cache would also help, (if you are routing a call for a website, but you recently opened it and have it in your cache, you an send that, decreasing load on the network, and automatically making popular sites more accessible).
Also it could used as a backbone for more robust chat apps/forums/blogs/services.
JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch 15 hours ago
I agree, that would be amazing. I also hope it will help with some truly local community building (no troll farms from halfway across the planet spamming shit). Weather stations are already possible with sensor nodes, and most big repeaters have weather data. Though not like weather forecasts or anything.
The main issue would probably just be congestion, not even bandwidth. Once it’s used a lot, some packets will just be dropped due to congestion and you don’t get a reply at all.
A bit less of a problem with meshcore, with meshtastic in densely populated areas most users still don’t set their devices to client_mute, causing unnecessary rebroadcasts and even more congestion. Though with enough adoptions maybe governments might lower their restrictions on duty cycle, allowing for more traffic.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Imagine local libraries and post offices pushing this technology to get around ISP’s grips on local infrastructure. Helps during emergency events, local organization, and could even put e-books available from the library. Post office’s make sense because of their rural locations extending the nodes and brings them into the 21st century delivering physical and digital mail.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
idk much at all about networking (beyond a home network) but if someone wants to begin building an alt-net I’d be willing to contribute a rasberry pi to the cause and leave it running 24/7.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
wouldn’t the more users also mean more nodes? making the system scalable? as with more users, the network gets more robust?