No. #LoRa is the radio layer. It sends packets when you tell it to. No retries, no routing, no confirmation that anyone received the packet. It just shouts things into the void and listends for any transmissions.
#Meshtastic is a software package (and maybe a protocol?) that uses LoRa to form a mesh network. It handles things like retries, routing, figuring out what nodes are directly reachable versus indirectly reachable and so on.
An anology might be that LoRa is like UDP and Meshtastic is like VoIP.
You may also be interested in knowing about #LoRaWAN. That also runs on top of LoRa, but it is not a #mesh. It is designed for getting data from a LoRa device to a computer #network. There's a LoRaWAN gateway that translates between LoRa and IP networks. It also has multi-layer #encryption support built in. So the gateway can't see the contents of messages being passed around.
Sticking to the same anology, LoRaWAN would be more like TCP.
In contrast, Meshtastic isn't really designed to talk to computers. Embedded sysytems talk to one another and computers can talk to those embedded systems (e.g. via bluetooth). I don't know enough about the #cryptography in Meshtastic to speak about it intelligently.
