Nostr Web Client

What should nostr devs focus on?

The highest value area of Nostr dev innovation would be to break out of jailed RF spectrum (i.e. jailed 5G GPRS) through client and hardware operability over #WAHM Wide Area Hashed Mesh networks, which utilise other areas of the electromagnetic spectrum using very cheap and powerful SDR Software Defined Radio chips.

The Lilygo T-Deck is a game-changing pocket #meshtastic device with a good screen and decent compute... and crying out for a groundbreaking Nostr client. It's definitely prototype/experimental with limitations, but likely the nexus of sovereign mobile devices.

#meshtastic #LoRa #SovEng

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https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck

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Russ 1y ago

An alternative to meshtastic that looks worthy of investigation seems to be Reticulum.

I was just reading about that last night.

https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum

Russ 1y ago

there's a bunch of other projects in that ecosystem that look good too

Analogue Dog 1y ago

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Russ 1y ago

I accidentally replied to your linked note and not here.

No, Meshtastic isn't the hardware.

Both these things are more or less at the same level within the stack, but have different goals, and Reticulum will work on the same kind of low power LoRa hardware as Meshtastic, but Reticulum can also can use other network bearers like WIFI, Ethernet, etc.

Here's an interesting brief write up (not mine) that does a comparison.

https://blog.erethon.com/blog/2024/01/31/comparing-reticulum-and-meshtastic/

Analogue Dog 1y ago

Reticulum = software (protocol level)

Meshtastic = whole stack inc. hardware

Russ 1y ago

There is no Meshtastic dedicated hardware.

You can't deploy reticulum over Meshtastic.

People have packaged hardware and software together specifically for Meshtastic, but the same is true for Reticulum too.

You can buy a premade Reticulum rNode like this:

https://unsigned.io/shop/product/handheld-rnode/

which would be about equivalent to buying a pre-built Meshtastic powered device something like this:

https://muzi.works/products/r1

but these are both generic LoRa hardware running the relevant software stacks for either system and a swanky 3D printed case wrapped around them.

Nathan Day 1y ago

Also, shouldn't that be a wireless obsession? 😉