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Does self hosting your own internet count? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 months ago by b_n@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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There's a live stream tomorrow on the 'tube setting up a MeshCore companion for sending messages over radio waves directly instead of relying on internet providers.

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[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And both use LoRa which is proprietary.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fact, but since that's common and cheap, and I'm not aware of an equivalent FOSS alternative, I'd go with Meshtastic, if were to dabble. And I dabble. :D

[–] CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I believe the only part of Meshcore that's not FOSS is the official app, and there's a FOSS alternative.

Personally, I'd use Meshcore. I tried MT for a month or so. I never saw a conversation, just a few scattered "test" messages. Meanwhile, on MC, I was away from my phone for 4 hours yesterday and came back to 250+ coherent messages in a conversation from all over the region (not to mention the hundreds of test messages).

MT is better in ad-hoc situations since clients can repeat messages, but MC is better for establishing a region-wide communication network.

[–] Supercat64@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I use MC because the network is finally being built out in my area and I can actually successfully send messages over MC. I do wish there were better open sourced companion apps for MC though.

[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Agreed. Oddly enough, my Meshtastic contacts are much farther away than my farthest MeshCore contacts but MeshCore seems to be much livelier.