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Post by Confused Jackal
maven leo
What is #meshtastic everyone keeps talking about? Like a decentralized wireless radio? Like ham radio, but digital? 🤔 #asknostr
Luke
Hmmm… wonder if this will help 🤔 #meshtastic #heltec #grownostr
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Luke
Non licensed off grid texting… think of CB radio only text based that uses each radio as a repeater as well so if you get a few high enough that their radio waves are not disrupted, you can reach across states
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maven leo
So, like, decentralized pagers
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Luke
I guess, I wasn’t cool enough to have a pager… even though I tried like hell to win one of them Mt. Dew pagers back in the day
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maven leo
Is it a US only thing?
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Luke
No I’ve seen people in the UK posting about them also
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Hermes
for adoption in your area check this: meshtastic.liamcottle.net
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maven leo
Thanks 👍
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Hermes
sure :) btw - if there is nothing visible in your area, it does not mean there is noone there - this map can see only users that share their location to the mesh. Also someone in the area has to upload to mqtt.
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Monsieur Socrates
Better then pagers because you can text back and forth. Also messages are encrypted. Its a lot light the lightning network, messages hop from node to node to reach there destination. The bigger the network the more reliable it becomes.
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VdubVW
Get a node and play around with it. It’s relatively cheap hardware. The more nodes the better it works. Come join us!🤙🏼 #meshtastic #lora #offgridcomms
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Luke
🤣and I’m such a noob that just playing with both of mine, I didn’t realize they send emojis
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VdubVW
Yup emojis are live.
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Confused Jackal
I’d like to play in this rabbit hole… where to start? Non technical noob 😬
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Luke
I first heard about it a month ago on Jack Spirko's podcast and since have tried to digest what I could from other sources too, I see mrecheese 🧀 is doing a hive talk about flashing them tonight, but a good place to start looking is fresnomesh.org
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