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[–] 29 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

https://meshtastic.org/

“An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices”. “Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!”

I tried to invent a similar concept before finding out that there are already several implementations 😅

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It lacks the bandwidth for actual Internet use unfortunately.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    The Internet used to lack the bandwidth for actual Internet use. Let's go back to html and small css files at most for private websites.

    I used to do everything on a 2400 baud modem (though admittedly it sucked pretty hard until 28.8k).

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I suppose the use case would be for journalists, distributing banned books, and so on - pure text-based information. However, video footage is extremely useful in today's media environment - how many current events do we see first from some tiktok or twitter video, rather than nightly news?

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