Comment by 🚀 devoid
Re: "Thoughts on nomadnet as gemini competitor?"
You don't have to show *me* @stack, I know Lisp and I know full well what it can and cannot do.
Show **Them**. Build a Reticulum implementation that brings to the fore what you would like to see and leaves out what bothers you.
Hell, why not build a better Python?
If it's worth your time to complain about something then it's worth your time to improve it or build something better, don't you think?
2025-10-22 · 6 months ago
Poll Results
1. nomadnet rocks
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2. nomadnet rocks but not as gemini competitor
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3. nomadnet sucks
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27 votes were cast.
2 Later Comments ↓
🚀 stack · 2025-10-23 at 00:28:
I am not complaining -- just answering why there is a negative attitude toward python.
As for reticulum -- I have no idea what it is, but as it is written in python, I will never use it.
And to build a better python.,.. Why? People think it's great, so it must be doing it for them. I don't even know what it means to build a better python. It's like building a better fascist state, or a better fart.
i tried it, it got me 300mb of python libs. and it all for, practically, just running a webapp chat, which i wasn't able to make to work. this one probably because i don't understand how it works. but still, 300 (it was more) mbs of python for what?
yggdrasil binaries are about 5-7 mb in installers.
just checked, yggdrasil binary in my computer - 11mb, yggdrasilctl - 7. close to the minimal code size go produces, i guess.
Original Post
Thoughts on nomadnet as gemini competitor? — I've spent almost the whole day researching reticulum and nomadnet, and here are my thoughts: I initially was interested in it to see how hard it is to host your own pages over it, configure and connect to the whole thing. However, the whole stack is written primarely in python (that scares me in terms of reliability because no offence but python is a trash language for that purpose), and clients are bretty basic. There's no search on page...
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