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by jubilanti 59 days ago
> There are tons

I'm sorry but are you serious? That map shows 224 nodes in the world, fewer than 30 in the entire Western hemisphere. And only 24 in the world are using LoRa? Meshcore has 38,000 nodes, Meshtastic 10,000. Those two projects can actually be said to have "tons" of nodes.

It hurts your credibility. I trusted you, spent time trying to debug the map, thinking that something was wrong on my end... why am I only seeing 224 when there should be "tons", is there a filter, are these just super nodes....

So I looked into it because of what you said, but you raised expectations so much that I feel nothing but disappointment.

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Fair enough and apologies. Justified or not, I took the comment I was replying to out of context of the current (MeshCore, LoRa) topic.

I was referring to the TCP/IP, I2P and yggdrasil endpoints. And regardless, "tons" was an unnecessary exaggeration.

too late. you're burned. time to buy a new passport.
that map on rmap.world is only showing nodes that run dicoverable=yes in their configurations or something like that.

based upon the announce stream coming through my local node, i am seeing around 14k unique identities advertising over 21k unique application endpoints (destinations) over the course of the past month or so that i’ve been tracking it.

It seems odd that such a tiny proportion would run `discoverable=yes`. Any idea why that is? It makes me question the numbers.