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What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET
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I think it lacks adoption because people assume it's trying to compete with the Internet as it exists now.
There have been experiments in delivering Wikipedia pages over sms.
If the current Internet fails (or is encouraged to become useless), Meshtastic might be the only way to get information from Wikipedia (mirrors).
I picked ours up as an emergency backup communication to radios during disasters. Wouldn't want to rely on it though, not always super dependable
Right, that wouldbe the "testing resilience" case I mentioned. Setting up a node ain't trivial though (I'm procrastinating to do just that right now), so I wonder about the required preparedness.
I expect the utility and reliability to grow with the number of users though.