Negentropy syncing notes over meshtastic links would be cypherpunk af. fully distributed, p2p, signed application data over radio. Who needs ISPs? They are a chokepoint anyways. So many cool usecases to explore outside of microblogging.
Imagine a lora setup for a local community, syncing notes between each other without any real internet infrastructure in place.
To send a note would be simply writing it to your local database. When nodes are online at the same time they simply sync with each other or a local relay server.
You could totally build distributed, low connectivity, store and forward applications this way if nostr was used for your application data.
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Heltec v3 boards are nice.
Literally had this idea last night too. But I don't know shit about any of that.
Do you have any knowledge or opinion of the tools and frameworks provided by Pear for P2P tech?


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Negentropy syncing notes over meshtastic links would be cypherpunk af. fully distributed, p2p, signed application data over radio. Who needs ISPs? They are a chokepoint anyways. So many cool usecases to explore outside of microblogging.
Imagine a lora setup for a local community, syncing notes between each other without any real internet infrastructure in place.
To send a note would be simply writing it to your local database. When nodes are online at the same time they simply sync with each other or a local relay server.
You could totally build distributed, low connectivity, store and forward applications this way if nostr was used for your application data.
what meshtastic kit should i get to start hacking on these things @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM π ? View quoted note β
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I mean, sure
I donβt like to be the party pooper. But from my short experience with Meshtastic, I feel bandwidth is not enough for this amount of data syncing. I could be wrong though.
37.5 kbps is plenty
RAK are very low power . I have a house node in my attic a roof node that is solar power and a few portable nodes. Maybe get a RAK that is a house node and an H1 for mobility
thanks!
I think @BlackCoffee was doing some work with LoRa and Nostr a bit ago, negentropy may help a lot here!
the bandwidth isn't the only issue, if you want to be a good radio citizen, you should be limiting you're time on air. in Europe that's between 0.1% and 1% depending on channel used. that reduces the bandwidth by a lot.


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Isn't part of LoRa the ability to have many simultaneuos non-conflicting transmissions because of the chirp modulation and error correction codes? Or is that already taken into account?
Regardless, in rural areas this wouldn't be an issue.
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Chirp spread spectrum modulation does allow for multiple simultaneous transmissions, but I believe that even so, with many devices transmitting together, performance can start to degrade, it will also affect other devices operating on the same spectrum.
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Something like spotpass & streetpass for the 3ds would be interesting, but on your smartphone. Every phone has an internal relay, updates notes to/from every person you are in range of. Mesh+Sneaker net. Hyper local Nostr.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpotPass_and_StreetPass
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