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idk what you're using for last week view but it seems to be around 20% for big router nodes in the heart of the city here atm

Oh no!

Anyway...

did they start AI generating the example sentences? because that's stilted as hell

so that's 3/4 that you're saying to avoid because you personally have deemed their moderation policies objectively inferior (and judging by 1 and 2 you probably think the same about hexbear?)

sounds like they're just instances you politically disagree with, one of which does happen to also be massive. I'm not saying redditors should come to those 4 instances, they mostly shouldn't (grad and hexbear don't want most of them, .ml has been trying to not be "the default instance" since forever, and world is a shithole and already massive/centralizing), but your choice of list was transparently more political than it was about centralization, why not just be honest about that?

Or are you going to pull the "moderation policies are (or should be) objective and apolitical" canard?

maybe, in the future, if meshtastic takes off/just doesn't die out. But if you're complaining about the community being too small then clearly your area isn't at that point yet, right?

My city is still not maxing out LongFast even with the very robust local infrastructure

wait so you switched off of LongFast, the channel where all the organic community is because it's the default and has enough range to tackle decent distances, and are now posting about how empty it is as if MediumSlow is representative of meshtastic as a whole?

I can get hundreds of nodes in my city on LongFast, there's a robust community mesh, but if I switched to MediumSlow I'd also get zero peers, because nobody uses it rn. Non-standard channels are only useful if you get organized (my local mesh has talked about switching over to a different channel as a group), or are using it for personal use with your immediate crew and have your own router nodes if necessary

Do people use this for any real application?

as far as I can tell in the hobbyist circles near me, no or rarely (things like communicating while hiking or camping are discussed but mostly in the hypothetical it seeeeems like). It's treated like ham radio where I'm at, where it could theoretically be useful in an emergency but until there's a major disaster to test it it's just nerds pinging eachother just to see what they can do. amateur radio is actually useful though, not sure how meshtastic will fare.

It seems like there are more practical uses for people in certain circumstances outside of the city though. I've seen homesteads and farms pop up as little remote clusters on some of the online maps, and people talk about having a home base station on a tower or the roof and then they can communicate with eachother from out in the fields (tends to be pretty flat so the range is better). Still hard to know how well used it is in those scenarios

Personally I like the idea and would actually use it for local chit-chat with friends family and fellow nerds, but the reliability of message delivery even when you're both connected to the mesh pretty well, seemed poor. I heard the newest firmware releases were supposed to improve message routing (not just using flood routing for all messages all the time) but I haven't tried them yet. Even with how big the mesh near me is, all the meta chat seems to be happening on discord not on the mesh itself

"I hate centralization, we should do less centralization"

posts a list of instances to avoid, 3/4 of which are actually much smaller in active users than his own, presumably just all instances he politically disagrees with

yeah https://speedboatdope.com/rss/ errors out. whoever hosts it likely has to fix their script

https://jumble.top/f/chapotraphouse.xml this seems to work

On the other hand, I also came across posts where people were saying SD card read speeds on Android are just generally bad, especially on more recent versions were they are hampered by some kind of new file access system.

This is correct as far as I know (for android 10+). I ran into it with an open source maps app a while back and read up. Google intentionally kneecapped (and in later versions I thought almost eliminated) micro sd file access APIs for apps. For "security" reasons (not entirely junk but not entirely honest either) but it does just happen to align really well with their goal of forcing everyone to put everything in their cloud storage and access media by streaming not local storage

linkety: https://osmand.net/docs/user/troubleshooting/maps-data/

this is... worse than I thought. Dude is a straight up grifter mooching on the open source community's good name and EU grants, and not a good project maintainer to boot.

yogthos has returned!

thanks for all the posts