kudra @ kudra @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 2Joined 2 days ago
The worst case I've read about is BurningMan 2023, once enough people were on the mesh it completely stopped working and they had to write a special version of the app so it wouldn't fail so badly... so it looks like there are ways to mitigate congested networks, but that is not stock. I admit I'm a complete newbie but there are some scathing comments about how poor Meshtastic is, though I've read others that say it's fine for what it tries to do but not great for other purposes. So my gut tells me Reticulum would probably be a better long term protocol which you could develop a stand alone app for BBS, instead of piggybacking on Meshtastic app.
Absolutely love this idea. Am concerned anywhere with enough Meshtastic nodes for this to be busy enough to be useful would congest the mesh too much though, as I've been reading Meshtastic falls over completely once you have too many nodes communicating ...? 🤔