[ck2]

btw what's the current state of mesh wifi?

seems like after November or January 2029 might need it since administration now has a kill-switch so why wouldn't they use it

[iamnothere]

“Always connected” meshes don’t scale, but fragmented meshes that use store-and-forward for some data are workable. I’d like to see someone do this with Nostr. The main issue is that you’d have to limit the size of data in transit, so rich media is probably not realistic.

Think FIDO protocol rather than the always-on internet we’re accustomed to.

A mesh of meshes may also be possible in theory.

[tancop]

the other way is using a hybrid mesh/tree system where volunteers or paid services transfer non local traffic over static links. aka the internet we have now but with a fallback layer.

[ck2]

ah doesn't ham-radio packet system do something like that, I only vaguely remember

but someone would have to build it into a major 3rd party firmware like openwrt to get wide adoption

[inigyou]

Mesh networks don't scale beyond a few thousand nodes if the nodes move frequently. Nobody has found a way to make that work. You can push another order of magnitude if you give up on decentralisation.