Last week, I wrote about how Joshua Aaron's ICEBlock app, which allows people to anonymously report ICE sightings within a 5-mile radius, is – unfortunately, and despite apparent good intentions – activism theater. This was based on Joshua's talk at HOPE where he made it clear that he isn't taking the advice
Meshtastic is fine for a small network but people are using it with the intention of building a city-wide mesh network and it’s failing miserably. There would have to be big changes in Meshtastic before it’s viable in such an environment. Meshcore however seems to show promise. The only downside being the need for repeater nodes since clients don’t repeat. I’m seeing a little adoption of Meshcore locally.
There are attempts to make state-wide meshes, there’s one in North Carolina. Most of the traffic on this mesh? “Morning mesh!” --no answer-- Most of the conversations you see between members? On Discord. Probably because Discord actually works.
I dig the idea of a communication network in which individuals can own the infrastructure. This doesn’t seem to be it, though.