In my region they switched to MeshCore, basically all at once.
The problem with Reticulum is that since it is hard to send an unencrypted packet, the experience of group chats was not great. Routing is also tuned for one to one communication. MeshCore does an interesting version of flood routing. But the stack is not very mature. The official app and a few others work well, but it's hard to integrate with machine to machine communication.
What is nice though is that you can have small nodes without the need for a Linux / Android machine to route and store traffic. Even work as full clients. So a simple battery powered esp32 node is all you need. For Reticulum you really need a better machine and esp32+lora is just a radio.
There were efforts to do it in Reticulum too, but that's very alpha.
I think this is like with Nostr, when I first saw the design, I thought it's retarded and it will never work. Yet here we are. Problems were fixed and I find myself writing Nostr apps. Because adoption matters way more than how beautiful the technology is.
I consider Reticulum a work of art. It's beautiful. Every line of code makes sense, it all plays together, it feels like a masterpiece of coding.
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Thanks for sharing your experience with MeshCore. I think for a LoRa network it's fine and works in many cases better than Meshtastic.
Meanwhile the experience for non-CLI people with Reticulum is getting better. Columna is a nice messaging app even with Bluetooth Interface. The recent addition of the auto-discovery makes bootstrapping much easier. I hope this makes it interesting for more people.
I somehow was not able to answer in thread, but just quoted and the client created a separate note )))))
Here is it:

Yondu (npub1wn…rlnft) on Nostr
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seen on nos.lol, nostr.mom, offchain.pub, relay.damus.io, relay.primal.net
Found the dynamic map of MeshCore nodes, here it is, much better than the standard one - can be filtered on last 7/14/30 days visible nodes, much more reliable:
also there are another views at the same site - packets, channel, nodes lists etc. Very useful.

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MeshCore Analyzer - LetsMesh.net
Real-time MeshCore mesh network analytics, node tracking, packet analysis, and coverage maps.