

Although I personally wouldn’t put too much emphasis on “can report you to authorities for any reason”. That’s true of any third party
Not true of Proton.
I don’t see how Lumo will compete with ChatGPT or Gemini
The same way it competes with all their other products; by making it private and open source.
Some people already are
https://map.nycmesh.net/
But the point of LoRa is in the name, long range. Wifi barely reaches outside my house. Also a WiFi mesh is dependent on a variety of complicated and proprietary networks and systems while meshtastic is entirely independent.