We have meshtastic, which is a mesh network for radio communications. How can we create something like that for the internet? And, ideally, how do we then host the fediverse platforms on it?
We have meshtastic, which is a mesh network for radio communications. How can we create something like that for the internet? And, ideally, how do we then host the fediverse platforms on it?
You don’t the bandwidth is too low it would be more a bbs.
Whats a bbs?
Oh god I’m old.
It’s, it’s basically a forum. A Bulletin Board System. Back from the days where you measured your bandwidth in baud.
Reject modernity, return to bbs
Yep we are really old. Note: there are still some BBS’s still online today on the tildeverse.
Bulletin Board System. Imagine if you had to connect to each Lemmy instance individually to read the collected posts. That’s sort of what BBSes were. A person’s computer hosting a forum of posts, that you’d connect through their phone number. The new use of that term with mesh is I think the same idea, individual connections and not a broad one like the internet is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system
Yea but it would be fine for the important shit like news, weather, alerts. Especially for neighborhood mesh alert systems.
Yeah only issue is if everyone was checking or posting their own updates through the mesh it would get bogged down with collisions. But that might improve if there more devices in a given area. Right now you have Bottleneck’s where there is only one link between 2 groups nodes.