Microsofts inability to properly name things once again introduces more confusion than clarity, thanks Microsoft :)
At this point I think they do it on purpose, as their metrics for "people visiting the website/repository" or whatever gets increased as people thinking the repository is about the existing concept/technology.
Set up a node! Bare boards that work with the app are like $50 and take a few clicks to flash and setup. The basic antenna with no amp makes contacts up to 50mi away if the conditions are right. I have one in a window and one in a backpack at all times.
It's insane how far you can go between hops, really most impressive. Where I live the mesh density is fairly high but I've also tried it in places where it was vanishingly low and yet I never completely lost contact. LoRa is very much an underappreciated technology.
By the way, some time ago when I checked there were two cool applications of LoRa: (1) a mesh, for (hopefully) truly decentralized and more difficult to disrupt communication, (2) a gateway, so that you could get data from your sensors in remote places via standard internet protocols.
Both are very cool, but I wonder if I missed something else?