I believe this stuff is going to be huge. Reticulum, Lora, Meshtastic all bit players now in a drama that has yet to get a finished script. It will start out as a supplement to the Internet, allowing you connectivity even when your Internet falters and as it becomes more ubiquitous, it will be increasingly used/usable and increasingly important. It can't be shut down, it can't be controlled. A country would literally have to ban radio signals of any kind in order to shut it down. It's free. Buy the hardware, use the network, because you are the network. I love this.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2026
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Running a reticulum node myself. Great project!
"Internet killer"
I send messages from a normal phone over LTE, through the internet... to reach a phone with no internet connection at all
Sure. But the point is with Reticulum you dont NEED to leverage existing internet infrastructure. This guy chose to for his demo, but you could easily do the same thing over RS485, or a serial port, or ametuer radio bands. The protocol is medium agnostic.
No, its no internet killer. But its useful right now and pretty fun to mess around with.
Biggest bullshit ever written in the history of mankind.
What has the constitution got to do with any of this? Winky face.
Reticulum is a great project, but it's not a replacement for the internet. LoRA (a potential piece in that chain) has very low data throughput; it's fine for messages, but you're not delivering web pages or streaming media with it.
Unless and until the throughput can be increased, Meshtastic/Meshcore is really only a replacement for text messaging, which might be perfectly fine for setting up encrypted comms or rapidly deploying communications in an emergency scenario.
Both are terrible for that. I hope that it's a small number of people that get killed relying on LoRa for emergency communications that result in the project(s) being sued out of existence.
Hey guys, I've got a great idea: Let's buy some $15 Arduino-like devices with milliwatts of transmitter power and trust them to life and limb! Even stupider than the people who buy Baofeng radios to put in a "bug out bag" and never use. Those at least mostly work.
I'm actually interested in your reasoning why you feel that way. Care to expand on that?
Had a play with meshtastic, but no other nodes in my city.
There's a guy that lives maybe 2 miles from me. Could see nodes all around him, and many even further away, but could never see him.
Where are you living? Make sure you read local forums, they might have specific connection settings to hide. Anyway meshtastic is slow and cannot even transmit voice. This could be better if there will be nodes.