The gist: The internet has become incredibly centralized. Reticulum is a protocol (and supporting hardware and software) that aims at using any physical means of communicating (e.g. wifi, or any other wireless connection) data to build a communication network. Anonymous and encrypted by default.
The Internet, Reinvented. Introduction to Reticulum.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de to technology@lemmy.world
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bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
ag10n@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mesh networking at a fraction of a fraction of speeds of traditional infra.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s only with R-nodes, which are L-O-R-A. If doing it over a faster connection such as an ethernet cable, a wireless Wi-Fi type link, etc., it can do 40 MBPS according to the documentation.
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I’m not going to watch a video about it; But I assume the name is inspired by Neal Stephenson’s Anathem? That’d make sense…
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Surfing the Ret
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It must be good crap (technical term) ;-)
Everyday0764@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Reticulum was at the ccc? can’t find the video
civ@lemmy.civl.cc 3 weeks ago
The sole developer isn’t actively supporting Reticulum anymore:
“The software remains available for use as-is. Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, but there will be no support, no responses to issues, no discussions, and no community management in this or any other public venue. If it doesn’t work for you, it doesn’t work. That is the entire extent of available troubleshooting assistance I can offer you.”
Blip6338@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
The latest release is dated 2 days ago github.com/markqvist/Reticulum . Actively supporting is not the same as actively developing.
This should probably be taken as “I am tired of supporting everyone who did not RTFM, too bad if you can’t make it work” and is a totally reasonable thing to do, especially as the project gain more traction.
There is a pretty good community around reticulum that is usually supportive.
civ@lemmy.civl.cc 2 weeks ago
Yeah, that’s a fair point, I’m just wary of sinking time into using a project with a single developer, a hazy future and no way of reporting issues. I don’t blame them for not providing that level of support, of course, but I’d rather stick to projects that are more mature or have more resources behind them.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Where are you getting this info from? The last release was 2 days ago github.com/markqvist/Reticulum and there is an active community porting it to different languages and working on related projects awesome-reticulum.net .
civ@lemmy.civl.cc 2 weeks ago
Source: github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/1069
I guess there are other people contributing still, but the github page is just a mirror, issues can’t be reported there or anything.