Two super nice, random encounters during #FOSDEM2026 while I was wearing a @batadv hoody: Two people approached me and shared their story with @batadv. One that they've been thinking about building a #MeshNetwork in Denmark with it a few times. The other from Brazil and how ~2014 they had a lot of fun with (trying) building a bat. #mesh with 6 nodes on top of their heads during a demonstration, while the government had shut down cellular internet.

#MeshNetworks #censorship #resilience #FOSDEM

That was a great 1st #FOSDEM experience. Any devs or activists involved with #MeshNetworks up to something this evening?

#Mesh #MeshNetwork

I'm on my way to (my first!) #FOSDEM! Hopefully the bus swap in Amsterdam will work out, we're already quite delayed. Only 0.5h instead of the originally planned 1.5h stop over time.
Let me know if you're at FOSDEM, too, and would like to talk about #MeshNetworks, #multicast and/or @batadv :-).

#Mesh #MeshNetwork

I am buying my first LoRa device.

Following the insightful buying guide by LocalMesh Netherlands, I am thinking I will go for LYLYGO T-Echo Plus. I would like to buy it from the official website, where it costs ~54€.

What do you think?

#LoRa #Meshtastic #Meshcore #MeshNet #MeshNetworks #radio #Netherlands #LocalMesh

"Element expects that a Dutch government investment in Matrix peer-to-peer technology could now support this quest. The goal is to develop a version of Element that can operate on a mesh network without requiring an internet server."

#ChiaraCastro, 2025

https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-need-to-go-beyond-signal-how-todays-aws-outage-shows-the-weaknesses-of-centralized-apps

Ooh, that's exciting! @matrix folks have been working on p2p matrix for a while, but progress has depended on volunteer devs;

https://arewep2pyet.com/

#decentralisation #MeshNetworks #matrix #TechFunding #Netherlands

It's always good when there's a storm like this, and the mesh is being used as an optional, fun thing and not a critical infrastructure thing.

#Meshtastic #MeshNetworks

Today marks the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, in 2011.

Those were the years when Facebook was trying to fool people posing as the good platform empowering oppressed populations.

Look at where we are, now. Platforms showing their real despicable nature.

I truly hope another revolution comes soon, everywhere. This time, we will all be using mesh networks, decentralized protocols, encrypted communication.

Transparency for the powerful, encryption for the masses. (paraphrasing Julian Assange)

#ArabSpring #Egypt #EgyptRevolution #Facebook #Meta #encryption #protest #protests #revolution #meshNetworks #Assange

Do I know anyone who's into #LoRa #meshNetworks? #meshCore #meshtastic etc? Just found out about these today and am already hooked and planning to build/expand the local networks (north of Toronto etc).

Now we have so many people talking about #Meshtastic AND #Meshcore. I think it's really time for a showdown between these two at the next @battlemesh in September in Croatia 🥊📡 .
Or will they both chicken out again 🙃?
We'll likely have a nice, quiet, secluded camping ground with space in all directions. With developers + activists from all over the world, typically with around 50 participants. Great opportunity to exchange #MeshNetworks ideas.

#MeshNetworks #MeshNetwork #Mesh #LoRa #WLAN

Hello @Indivisibleteam -- a resilience note for public actions: cell phones expose both message content and location (e.g., Stingray devices). Pairing phones with LoRa mesh networking via the Reticulum protocol enables encrypted, non-locating, device-to-device & hidden-IP worldwide messaging.

Happy to share practical, field-tested insights if useful.

#Indivisible #DigitalResilience #MeshNetworks #LoRa #Reticulum #EmergencyComms #CivilResistance #TechForGood #Resilience #Decentralization

Hi, I'm Gabby! I am once again making an account on here. I'm interested in:

#SolarPunk
#MeshNetworks
#OpenSource
#HomeAssistant
#MutualAid
#SocialEcology
#DirectDemocracy
#Technology
#Ecosocialism
#Anarchism

First Yggdrasil Network release candidate in a while, will likely aim for a general release later this week.

https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go/releases/tag/v0.5.13-RC.1

#yggdrasil #yggdrasilnetwork #meshnet #meshnetworking #meshnetworks #e2ee #decentralized

Great to catch so many of you at the LoRa mesh networking intro session this evening! and super questions & discussion about communicating via #meshnetworks and #meshcore

Other than that, a few technical issues with the values were observed. Two pull requests for the #GluonCensus exporter were created to address that to track a few more nodes. The PRs will hopefully be merged soon:
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/census-exporter/pull/119
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/census-exporter/pull/120
3/3

#Freifunk #MeshNetworks

Watched #HideakiYoshifuji's 2009 Linux.conf.au talk on "Evolution of #Multicast Engine on #Linux": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjctk8NZjG0
And was like, "oh, that wasn't that long ago, that was around when the @batadv Linux kernel implementation was started, too."
And then I realized, oh, wait, @batadv was started quite a while ago :D.

#ipv6 #MeshNetworks

Rick Carlino: My first meshtastic network. “Working with Meshtastic has been fun. It’s impressive how a few inexpensive devices can form a communications network covering many miles. The system is limited, but within those constraints it feels magical to send a message into the ether and have it hop across a county line to a stranger. Meshtastic isn’t very useful alone, but as more people join, […]

"In the early 2000s, mesh networks were on the verge of being everywhere and connecting everything. Daisy-chaining many devices like beads on a string would “accommodate hundreds or thousands of nodes” and provide “low, up-front cost, easy network maintenance, robustness, and reliable service coverage,” according to mesh-networking forecasts from 2004 and 2005, respectively.

But it would take over two decades to get there. During that time, a range of mesh protocols and standards emerged, each claiming to be the solution—only to flame out or splinter into new incompatibilities.

In 2026, mesh networks that can work together in real-world settings are finally arriving. But rather than a single dominant standard that could power all variety of mesh networks, three separate but interoperable technologies are instead reaching maturity more or less simultaneously: Thread 1.4, a mesh standard for low-power smart-home devices; the Wi-Fi 7 standard for high-bandwidth computing; and the smart-home protocol Matter, which acts as a translator, so devices on different mesh networks can talk to one another. Together, these three provide the beginnings of compatibility and interoperability that has eluded mesh proponents for so long.

However, this multistandard compromise may well only be a way station. “I expect that one mesh technology will eat all the others eventually, possibly incorporating them,” said Mihail Sichitiu, professor of electrical and computer engineering at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh. “Maybe not immediately, but eventually. Looking at how other things evolved, it’s just a matter of time.”"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/mesh-network-interoperable-thread

#Mesh #MeshNetwork #Interoperability #Wifi7 #Thread14 #Matter #SmartHomes #MeshNetworks #MeshNetworking

The original mesh network showing off this morning.

#MeshNetworks #FungusFriday

We finally got around to putting the e-paper device on Thingiverse!

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7241237

#Reticulum #Meshtastic #MeshNetworks #OpenSource #RaspberryPi