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 @BLUESKY ? View quoted note →
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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.
I don’t 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
thanks!
I think @BlackCoffee was doing some work with LoRa and Nostr a bit ago, negentropy may help a lot here!
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.