@ericr OK buddy.

@kawaiipunk There are so many variables at play! If everyone there was on LongFast with 7 hops, I could see collisions ruining the whole thing.

@dianea @DaveMWilburn Niiiice. I’d love to try that experiment.

@kawaiipunk Interesting. It worked surprising well at Def Con.

@DaveMWilburn @boscoandpeck For sure. You can get going with the mesh for like $30, no license needed. It’s fun! I really enjoy it for hobby experimentation. I just don’t recommend it for life and death things. If you count on it to communicate in an emergency, or help your friends find you in a national forest, or find your lost pet, you’re probably in for a bummer.

@boscoandpeck @DaveMWilburn Today, I would not recommend Meshtastic for an outage. It’s a fun hobby but I wouldn’t trust my life with it. And in any case, it’s the kind of thing you have to have up and running before you need it.

I also have a ham (extra) license and would trust it in a disaster. The hardware is more robust, the range is much better, and it’s more widely used and practiced today. Meshtastic range can’t improve too much, but the others could change with time.

@loop0 It appeals to me on a deep level. I made the BBS just because it feels like the old dialup days to me, in a good way.

@DaveMWilburn That’d be a bummer. In contrast, it’s hopping here in the Bay Area.

Reddit post:

My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"

I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.