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[–] 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

This is why we need self-postable infrastructure, so that you can just operate and open Defiance of the law

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    may or may not fit the bill, but check out https://reticulum.network/.

    Description from their page:

    The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their own sovereign communication networks, and to make it cheap and easy to cover vast areas with a myriad of independent, interconnectable and autonomous networks.

    I've been trying it out and it feels a lot like the early web and there's a few cool projects building on top of the reticulum network:

    • Nomad Network: A terminal based program that provides multiple features.
    • Sideband: An Android/Linux/MacOS client that supports messaging, voice calls and various other features.
    • MeshChatX: A modern multi-platform client.
    • RetiBBS: A bulletin board system for the reticulum network.
    • Columba: A modern reticulum network messaging client for Android.

    If anyone happens to try it out, shoot me a message at 4187fa0d2254b521d243c42448e81206!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Hello random Lemming! Just wanted to thank you for this. I consider myself pretty well versed in tech and had not heard of Reticulum. More importantly, reading the docs it feels like I’m reading the writings of someone I agree with on a fundamental level - even about their departure from the public project.

    Going to give it a whirl.

    Again thanks

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    even about their departure from the public project.

    what do you mean by that?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The note here makes it clear (link at the very top of the GitHub readme doc): https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/blob/master/MIRROR.md

    The author intends to work at their pace, on their time, with no interaction with the public projects.

    Likely, and this is supposition, a small group of developers connected on the network itself will push the project forward where pushes are needed but they may not be.

    But also, the very rare and important consideration that, in their words, “Everything you need is right here, and by any sensible measure, it's done. Anyone who wants to invest the time, skill and persistence can build on it, or completely re-imagine it with different priorities.”

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    interesting. but they are still doing the project, just not reading the github issues.

    actually they even disabled the issues and the pull requests, which is unfortunate because earlier discussions also become inaccessible.

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