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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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I love the idea of these things, but I have no one to talk to with them.
Have you tried the public channels?
I checked the map. There are 0 nodes in my town.
Some nodes aren't listed. You could try going a high point
That doesn't necessarily mean there are no nodes. I've taken a node on road trips, and I've seen a lot of advertisements from nodes in small towns where nothing was on the official map.
Build some for your friends and neighbors. Then in an outage or calamity you can atleast talk to someone.
Yup… friends. I have those.
You have neighbors, build a community
I think file sharing could be a decent immediate use-case, high-speed internet can be expensive and these days we often deal with chonky files, so something like this could (with the right software setup) let you simply drag-and-drop files between households.
It would take, like, forever. Meshtastic is cool, I've been messing with it for years, but it is dog slow. It is only practical for short text messages and telemetry.