Gert V 🇵🇸
@JulianOliver
In a disaster situation when there are no phones or internet, we might be able to set up a wireless access point, even with just a RaspberryPi. But then, without the disservices of Big Tech, how do we communicate?
You need to know who is who on your makeshift network, a pattern called "discovery." Then when you know who to connect with, how do people set up a minimal (group) chat session, even in a terminal, without installing anything.
That's what we're trying to figure out.
Julian Oliver
@mro @gert I believe Meshtastic (LoRa) is at the current time the best option. The community is already vast, meaning route redundancy and fault tolerance are a built in in many cities.
This is only a part of the node population
https://meshtastic.liamcottle.net/
LilyGo, SenseCAP T1000 and Station G2 (incl Nano G2) are plug and play for the less technically minded, have kilometers of line of sight (records are in the hundreds for Meshtastic) and an excellent app layer.
Julian Oliver
@mro @gert I'm a huge proponent of HAM, Software Defined Radio solutions, packet radio etc, but in an emergency expertise - rarefied knowledge - becomes a single point of failure. When the local radio or mesh networking expert is trapped by flood or a barrage of bombs, the community that grew to depend on them is no better off.
Expertise must be distributed for there to be resilience in a community.
Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻
Hi @gert @JulianOliver,
is that basic infrastructure effort related to what e.g. https://ffmuc.net (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk) does with meshing?
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