Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network • Hacker News Board

> Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from.

Sure, but if it’s anything like MeshCore, a few observer nodes will be able to see which repeaters the message first entered the network from and from that know roughly where it was located.

Re: Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

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Post by donpdonp » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:21 AM UTC

it'd be nice to see a comparison to rayfish.xyz

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Post by ashton314 » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:29 AM UTC

thisisauserid wrote: post #2

Was also the name of the internet in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.

Yes it is.

With the Artificial Inanity systems and the Rampant Orphan Botnet Ecologies (ROBE) beginning to spew tremendous amounts of crap (a technical term) onto the Ret, things are getting tricky for us ITA.

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Post by tehlike » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #4

> Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from. Sure, but if it’s anything like MeshCore, a few observer nodes will be able to see which repeaters the message first entered the network from and from that know roughly where it was located.

reticulum don't just propagate over lora. IT can practically propagate over anything it supports (network, lora, bluetooth, etc).

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Post by therein » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

donpdonp wrote: post #5

it'd be nice to see a comparison to rayfish.xyz

It has nothing to do with that, like at all.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC

donpdonp wrote: post #5

it'd be nice to see a comparison to rayfish.xyz

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Post by 405nm » Mon, Aug 17, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC

Gigachad wrote: post #4

> Reticulum does not use source addresses. No packets transmitted include information about the address, place, machine or person they originated from. Sure, but if it’s anything like MeshCore, a few observer nodes will be able to see which repeaters the message first entered the network from and from that know roughly where it was located.

it isn’t