Alternatively…

Huge fan of Reticulum, fixes some of my biggest gripes with Meshtastic. Shame it hasn't got as much adoption yet. For those looking for Meshtastic-equivalent things in the Reticulum ecosystem:

- Sideband: iOS/Android chat app (https://github.com/markqvist/Sideband)

- NomadNet: Desktop CLI chat app (https://github.com/markqvist/NomadNet)

- Rnode: Reference node hardware/firmware (https://unsigned.io/rnode/)

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maccam912 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What are those gripes? If I don't have anyone else who would use it, but would hang out in a public chat room, it didn't seem like reticulum was the right choice for that? You need destinations on things?

	▲	bb88 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		We have a relatively dense meshtastic in my city, and yet I can't reliably send a message across to my friend, who would be 4 hops away. It's just not awesome. Especially compared to what you can do with ham radio.
	▲	PBnFlash 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It seems like big cities get congested, on marginal systems the chances of only getting half the messages is very high. It really dosnt integrate with much else, the mqtt stuff seems unreliable. It does seem like the RNode radios are a lot less mature but they seem to be aiming to be less of a toy.

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MerrimanInd an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Meshcore is another alternative. I haven't done a deep dive into either but have heard that they both fix some Meshtastic issues.

https://meshcore.co.uk/

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greesil an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

First I've heard of this. My initial reaction is why oh god why this name. I liked Anathem, but seriously you're not going to using this as the Internet 3000 years from now.

Meshtastic at first glance seems silly. No routing, one spammer could mess up the whole thing. Hopefully this is better.