Comment by 🐦 JustASillyBird
Reticulum has one advantage above all others: It's designed for extreme low bandwidth. You could send it over semaphore flags if you wanted. Given that LoRa's longer range modes provide sub-kilobit speed, that matters.
Feb 07 · 3 months ago
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🐦 JustASillyBird · Feb 07 at 11:45:
The catch is that Reticulum is utterly incompatible with everything. It has to be - it runs over links so starved for bandwidth that even TCP couldn't work, because acknowledgement packets wouldn't return fast enough. So any networking over Reticulum means writing everything from ground up.
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Gemini over LoRaWAN? — I'm fascinated by the idea of running a smolweb over LoRaWAN. Imagine a decentralized network of FLOSS-hardware devices, solar-powered, each running a gemini capsule and a relay (HAM radio style) to transmit data on to other points on the LoRaWAN mesh network. It's not a fast way to communicate, but smolweb gemini doesn't need to be. If LoRaWAN can reach 56.6kbps, it'd feel like the days of dialup, but... decentralized, solar-powered, and resistant to censorship. Has...