Talk to like-minded people - like you and me here, sitting on Fediverse, discussing tech. Help set family and friends up with access. That's what I do today with my Matrix server.

The rest of the world rarely have anything good to say.

Well Meshcore only recently arrived here, but you can still reach Latvia from southern Finland. Not completely effortlessly though.

I'd like to kick most of the world out of my bubble anyway. Most people just annoy and depress me.

And talk to who? You (and I) and the 0.001% can ham it up, but the rest of the world will be living in a different bubble.

And just talk btw, no bandwidth for anything else

They already are though.

Yeah; the HAM is a “next step” thing for if they lock down the microwave band somehow.

But also, a HAM license is required to operate LoRa at higher power broadcast, at least in my country. At under 10km range low bandwidth, it isn’t currently needed.

That’s an interesting one actually. If they licked down HAM regulations, they’d lose their relief valve/last line of defense.

It’s not that some idiotic government couldn’t do it, but if they did then they’d lose what control they currently have AND be totally screwed of anything went wrong.

Yeah, just like you can run your own SMTP service and exchange e-mail, or... could 25 years ago before the big players froze all the small players out of the big network pool. You can set up your own internet, your own e-mail network, etc. but the Facebooks, Whats Apps, Apples and Googles of the world will lock your internet out of their internet.