Also remember that fdroid is working on getting applications to use reproducible builds so that they are not the ones responsible for building the application. They just have to build it and check to see if it matches what the developer issued as the actual application.

They want you to not have to trust them.

You should switch banks to a bank that already has a web application and doesn’t require you to use a mobile application to make purchases.

I self-host my own Monero node and I self-host my password manager and my files

I’m going to call bullshit. There are several decentralized storage networks and resource allocation networks over blockchains.

I’m going to call bullshit in that there are several networks that might be capable of doing this such as several blockchain networks or IPFS.

I haven’t gone through all the modes, but apparently there is a tracker mode that from what I understand doesn’t really broadcast unless it receives a specific signal from a known device. So theoretically it might last a bit longer, but yeah, I definitely see your point.

How about meshtastic with the Rak WisMesh Tag?

For the donations you could have a look at https://xmrchat.com/

The next headline will read, OpenStreetMaps gains users as Apple adds ads to maps.

CMEs cause very long-length disturbances so you need a conductor of quite a length to cause problems. The power grid is one example. Anything that’s on a solar panel and not connected to the grid would not be a problem because the wires are much shorter and don’t have enough space with which to build up a charge.

Agreed. If it doesn’t work with Home Assistant or requires me to use an account to use it, I’m completely not buying it.

Nostr is a weird being. You are correct that it is not peer-to-peer like Monero is. However, it’s not quite federated in the same way that ActivityPub is.

When using Nostr clients, you actually publish your same data to like six different relays at the same time. It has the built-in assumption that some of those relays are going to be down at any given time and so by publishing to like six at once you get data redundancy.

Right, but even if individual instances go down, you don’t end up with headlines all over the world of half the internet being down. Because half the internet isn’t down, the network is self-healing. It temporarily blocks off the problem area, and then when the instance comes back, it resynchronizes and continues as normal.

Services might be temporarily degraded, but not gone entirely.

Monero, Nostr, Lemmy, and Mastodon did not go down. Why? Because they are decentralized

Ipfs or possibly arweave

No, it’s totally free and open source, and you can host it on your own server if you wish.

I’m assuming that they were more referring to the outage that occurred today that pulled a ton of the internet services, including signal offline temporarily.

You can have all the encryption in the world, but if the centralized data point that allows you to access the service is down, then you’re fucked.

Have a look at Reolink.

Unfortunately, you need the app to set it up the first time, which you can only get on Google Play or the iOS App Store, but I don’t think you need an account for them at all.

Note: I do not own any, but I was doing some research to see about using them with Home Assistant.

Meshtastic?

If so it runs on the ISM bands EU868MHz and USOL915MHz and uses chirp spread spectrum as its modulation. Packet radio such as APRS uses 2m ham band normally and is AFSK AX.25

It sounds like your area is probably outgrowing longfast. They actually wrote an entire blog post about this particular issue.

https://meshtastic.org/blog/why-your-mesh-should-switch-from-longfast/

Edit: meshcore sits between MediumSlow and MediumFast meshtastic presets. So 40 nodes are trying to use a preset that is slower than what mesh core was using for very few nodes.