Where are you living? Make sure you read local forums, they might have specific connection settings to hide. Anyway meshtastic is slow and cannot even transmit voice. This could be better if there will be nodes.

Sure. But the point is with Reticulum you dont NEED to leverage existing internet infrastructure. This guy chose to for his demo, but you could easily do the same thing over RS485, or a serial port, or ametuer radio bands. The protocol is medium agnostic.

No, its no internet killer. But its useful right now and pretty fun to mess around with.

Biggest bullshit ever written in the history of mankind.

Both are terrible for that. I hope that it's a small number of people that get killed relying on LoRa for emergency communications that result in the project(s) being sued out of existence.

Hey guys, I've got a great idea: Let's buy some $15 Arduino-like devices with milliwatts of transmitter power and trust them to life and limb! Even stupider than the people who buy Baofeng radios to put in a "bug out bag" and never use. Those at least mostly work.