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Cross State Communication
(piefed.social)
A community to discuss Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction)
Other mesh communities:
MeshCore: !Meshcore@feddit.org Reticulum: !Reticulum@mander.xyz
Because of a recent update, favorited router nodes can act as a single hop, which would theoretically increase the amount of nodes that could be traversed before that 7-hop count was reached, but this still probably wouldn't work out for OP.