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the only thing is that I feel like you'd need to pause the thing to get any good discussion going in the chat without missing the next couple minutes of the pod. But yeah, cool idea!

I wish these people were serious. Like, not giving up at the first sign of police repression type of serious. Because goofy or not, we do need a militant response to fascism and that requires bodies.

They aren't serious, at least not the vast vast majority, but I do think its worth doing education/recruitment over pointing and laughing, because they're sorta on the right track they just have no concept of how fucked things already were, how they're likely to get much worse, and that their beloved liberal institutions won't save them. If I knew these people I'd probably be trying to get them to read about past liberation struggles (genuine ones not privileged cosplayers) to get an idea of how the state responds to this stuff and what practical, concrete resistance can look like.

edit to add: being cringe is better than doing nothing. At least she's talking to like minded people and making connections.

I literally clicked and went "oh it's this guy?? god damn it" he's a notorious shithead

ad blockers, people, I'm begging you

on the mobile app? I don't have that

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