Yep! Ive used things that work perfectly for years in COBOL. It mostly doesnt matter what a thing is made out of unless I have to look under the hood and fix something.

Rust is fine. Its not revolutionary though its just another language. I made some cool one offs with it. But its everything else thats an issue.

We had things break at work because of rust-coreutils. I dont particularly care that its made in rust. It just needs to be stable and compatible.

However, the project is not 100% compatible with GNU coreutils. Putting aside the licensing issues, if it cant do what it says on the tin, then it should be on experimental linux distros not our most popular distros.

But this is linux/FOSS so people will do what they want. It means I wont use Mint, but its also ok for Mint to decide this. GL! hope everything works out either way.

oh nice, maybe ill give it a shot.

Its for fun. :)

To expand on what others have said:

Meshtastic:

Has more users
Has really good info on traceroutes, historical details on signal strength, etc…

MeshCore:

Messages often get recieved because of a better* algorithm (much higher hop limit). Chat feature makes a node into a chatroom. Messages get saved and anyone logging in can see messages.

Both are good. I wish they did more work interop TBH. But both are in their early days. reticulum is also another protocol in the space. Much harder to set up but actually is more like everyone things of a mesh network (websites are hosted/viewed via multiple ways).

Ive worked and contributed to both mesh projects. They have VERY similar hardware so its really just differences between what you want to play around with. In an actual emergency though…walkie talkies are MUCH better (as well as ARPA).

!meshtastic@mander.xyz is where we hang out.

I find it does this off and on. If you change the user agent or open the site in desktop mode itvsuddenly goes away. They are still tryingbto push the app. And the app still looks terrible. Rif used to be my jam.

I did the same. Thres even a tool that lets you pull everything from github real easy.

Once PR/issue federation works…its going to be SOL for GitHub. Or just a slow decline.

Fairly talkative but you only see half the convos most of the time.

Yeah work is thinking of switching.

Gl! It only gets better if you put in the work. We dont agree but hey thats life.

Have a good day.

Ive done my part!

Things that your community wants to see get upvoted.

Things your community does not want to see get downvoted.

If you get rid downvoting you get rid of the vehicle for removing things your communities dont want to see.

If you dont want to see what a bunch of randos are agreeing/disagreeing on, maybe try to find a site that does? Because this is the internet in a nutshell. I dont hate you by downvoting you, im saying to others, hey this person has nothing to say that is important here. And the website pushes that content away from that community via the score. I think lemmy still lets you see the downvoted comments but other fedi services just remove the comments/posts OR hide them automatically. I know some software even removes the post/comment before it even hits the servers. Fedi is powerful in that we can do what we want with the data we get.

I just dont understand your point of view sorry. Maybe if you implement the solution I can better understand.

Its pretty easy to fork Piefed and other such fedi services. Give it a go!

I made mastodon clone where the hashtags are organized like they were lemmy/piefed/threadiverse communities. It worked really well! GL!

You know, I could see a feature where if someone mass downvotes a certain percentage of your posts, then block them in some manner.

Like if someone made a script to downvote ALL your posts or something of that nature. But I personally havent seen something like that in the fedi before. But it was something reddit had a problem with. Bots downvoting so their own posts got to the top before anyone else.

I dont think blanket blocking downvoting people is a good thing though. As others have said,it will undermine the purpose of the voting, for visibility.

Its decent…but VERY hard to set up. At least at the moment.

Ive played around and contributed a tiny bit over the last couple of years. You basically set it up piecemeal and then you have an actual decentralized server/client setup on a number of devices. Phones, lora, etc… can all work with it.

Ive sent myself some pictures/voice/internet packets via two heltek v3 at one point using nothing but the system and a laptop not connected to the internet. It does what is says on the tin.

But it took quite a bit of time and effort to get there. And while it was neat, no one else is really using it and things go down all the time. So I moved on to “easier” projects like meshtastic/core.

Tor/onion is MUCH easier than using reticulum but also is dependent on quite a number of internet nodes all being up and doing their thing. reticulum can run on the equivalent of 1W (or less) helteks.

What is meshbrowser? Ive done work with reticulum but never heard of MeshBrowser?

I maintain a library that is used quite a bit and I had to turn off github issues because AI bots are trying to push reporting security vulns…in a library that has no dependencies. Or AI that is setup to waste time by asking pointless questions that do not pertain to the library. The library is literally two files. Technically 3 if you include the tests.

I moved my library over to codeberg recently. So much better of an experience. Its really too bad, I have 15+ years in Github but the AI bots are going to push me out.

Interesting, thanks for the info!

Firefox on mobile. I make the website an app. It works.

Nice!

Both seem like good machines :).