Do any of you have experience with community mesh networking? It seems like a fun time and a good way to connect with people (socially and technically lol) in the community. Not to mention the possibility of providing at least limited internet access to people who can’t access it by conventional means for whatever reason. A community mesh network might also have organizing possibilities - especially because the state or the cops or a company can’t just shut it off or look inside it as easily

  • PaX [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Sorry for late reply, been touch-grass

    I got my amateur radio license recently and I just started thinking about this

    I don’t really know very much at this point tbh but I would also be down to help with your project if you would like

    Idk if I could even find enough people in my city who would want to do something like this with me either… although I am willing to run/help people run network nodes based on things other than 802.11 which could help a lot with range (point-to-point radio links, maybe over microwave, more conventional packet radio on the amateur radio bands, LoRa, etc)

    • xj9 [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      We’ve decided to try organizing the mesh project using briar. Here’s my address: briar://adkjcwpltwvnqsjyn3shg3qeytrxxerlsmgl6pk2uw5o3tm3rxuhi

      DM me ur ID so I can add u back and then I’ll invite you to the forum.