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| === Real life Meshnets === | === Real life Meshnets === |
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| Meshtastic, Meshcore, and Reticulum are real enough, they exist, but modern history has at least a few examples of DIY mesh/street networks that operated without a formal project drafted ahead of time: | Meshtastic, Meshcore, and Reticulum are real enough, they exist, but modern history has at least a few examples of DIY mesh/street networks that operated without a formal project drafted ahead of time. The biggest one I'm aware of was in Cuba: |
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| https://gizmodo.com/cubas-illegal-underground-internet-is-thriving-1681797114 | https://gizmodo.com/cubas-illegal-underground-internet-is-thriving-1681797114 |
| **[[https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-1.gmi|Gemini Protocol]]** | **[[https://geminiprotocol.net/docs/faq-section-1.gmi|Gemini Protocol]]** |
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| Gemini is a 'text-centric' web alternative designed for people who are stick of how complicated, surveillance-heavy, and generally enshittified the web has gotten. It enables you to set up and view text-based 'capsules' (the local equivalent of a website) and is actually pretty well hardened against adding the kind of new features and bloat which would cause it to follow in the web's footprints. It places an emphasis on reading without distraction, popups, ads, or unnecessary cruft, and allows the user to control how the sites look. It's a good fit for people who have low bandwidth, like simple tech, or appreciate privacy. So while it's not a mesh network, you might see how something so bare-bones might be a good fit for one, given the low requirements on processing power and bandwidth. And there's even an [[https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/860|implementation of Gemini on Reticulum]]! So if you want to get some ideas for what a solarpunk internet might look like, maybe [[https://geminiquickst.art/|wander around Gemini a little]]. | Gemini is a 'text-centric' web alternative designed for people who are stick of how complicated, surveillance-heavy, and generally enshittified the web has gotten. It enables you to set up and view text-based 'capsules' (the local equivalent of a website) and is actually pretty well hardened against adding the kind of new features and bloat which would cause it to follow in the web's footprints. It places an emphasis on reading without distraction, popups, ads, or unnecessary cruft, and allows the user to control how the sites look. It's a good fit for people who have low bandwidth, like simple tech, or appreciate privacy (it's encrypted by default). So while it's not a mesh network, you might see how something so bare-bones might be a good fit for one, given the low requirements on processing power and bandwidth. And there's even an [[https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/860|implementation of Gemini on Reticulum]]! So if you want to get some ideas for what a solarpunk internet might look like, maybe [[https://geminiquickst.art/|wander around Gemini a little]]. |
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