Nostr is a weird being. You are correct that it is not peer-to-peer like Monero is. However, it’s not quite federated in the same way that ActivityPub is.
When using Nostr clients, you actually publish your same data to like six different relays at the same time. It has the built-in assumption that some of those relays are going to be down at any given time and so by publishing to like six at once you get data redundancy.
Right, but even if individual instances go down, you don’t end up with headlines all over the world of half the internet being down. Because half the internet isn’t down, the network is self-healing. It temporarily blocks off the problem area, and then when the instance comes back, it resynchronizes and continues as normal.
Services might be temporarily degraded, but not gone entirely.
Monero, Nostr, Lemmy, and Mastodon did not go down. Why? Because they are decentralized
No, it’s totally free and open source, and you can host it on your own server if you wish.
I’m assuming that they were more referring to the outage that occurred today that pulled a ton of the internet services, including signal offline temporarily.
You can have all the encryption in the world, but if the centralized data point that allows you to access the service is down, then you’re fucked.
Meshtastic?
If so it runs on the ISM bands EU868MHz and USOL915MHz and uses chirp spread spectrum as its modulation. Packet radio such as APRS uses 2m ham band normally and is AFSK AX.25
It sounds like your area is probably outgrowing longfast. They actually wrote an entire blog post about this particular issue.
https://meshtastic.org/blog/why-your-mesh-should-switch-from-longfast/
Edit: meshcore sits between MediumSlow and MediumFast meshtastic presets. So 40 nodes are trying to use a preset that is slower than what mesh core was using for very few nodes.
I don’t care how bad meshtastic is because mesh core does not have open source client applications and therefore I won’t touch it with a 10 foot pole.
I’m one of those go-open source or go-home people.
Though, meshtastic have been doing some things recently to try to improve the routing, such as removing the repeater functionality entirely from the software, because repeaters did not show up in your list, and making it more difficult to use router mode so it gets used incorrectly less.
They just recently added a new client base mode that will act as a router for nodes in its favorites list, but act as a client for everybody else. So all you have to do is put up your node in your tree, or on your pole, or on your roof, and favorite your portable nodes, and it will act as a router for those, but it will act as a client for everybody else.
I believe they have also either entirely removed or turned telemetry way, way down so that it does not transmit telemetry very often or only on request. I’m not totally sure which.
What’s the channel utilization in your area? If you have 40 devices now, it may be time to move to a faster preset.
I think this is actually a very interesting thing.
Back in January, I purchased my first meshtastic node, and while it’s not solar powered, I know a lot of the repeaters are.
I have a Heltec MeshPocket which is a 10k mAh backup phone battery and meshtastic node. With how little power the meshtastic node uses i think i will get 30-45 days before needing to recharge.
I live in hurricane country so it is possible to be without power for a while.
Some shitcoins dropped 80%. Monero and bitcoin held up well though
I agree. You should just charge one price, and that way customers know exactly how much it’s gonna be.
Find the place with the highest fee, roll it into the base price that you offer nationwide. Problem solved. In the place where it’s exactly as high as that, you won’t make any profit. Anywhere it’s lower than that, you will make a profit.
What preset were you using at the time? I know that longfast is not the best preset for larger networks that have a lot of users.
Personally, open source matters to me much more than the speed or congestion or whatever, which is why I chose meshtastic. Because the mesh core, foam applications are not open source.
Until there is an open source version, I absolutely refuse to touch it. I know that the underlying software is open source, but without having open source interfaces, I’m still refusing to touch it.
That sounds like a fantastic way to go. You might also look at meshtastic.
It’s a much different use case, being for text messaging and stuff like that only. But, while it may be low bandwidth, it’s still incredibly interesting.
In other news, today is “no shit” day.
I think the best idea would be to duplicate it multiple times and share it with multiple people encrypted so that only you can open it.
Things like IPFS, for example.
This is also the way nostr works.
I can think of one useful function. I have a lot of friends who are totally blind, and there’s an app called Be My Eyes, where a sighted person can take a look at something through your phone’s camera. But, being blind, a lot of blind people are absolutely terrible at aiming cameras, because they can’t see what they’re aiming at.
In this case, the object ends up out of the camera’s field of view, or at an angle, or upside down, etc. etc. etc. Whereas, I think having a pair of smart glasses on your face would make the camera platform be much steadier.
The internet is fragmenting in front of our very eyes. The only things that will be left when it’s all said and done will be Tor, I2P, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Nostr.
Agreed. If it doesn’t work with Home Assistant or requires me to use an account to use it, I’m completely not buying it.