Was also the name of the internet in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
Haha I immediately looked for this comment and wondered if the name was inspired by Anathem.
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
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How is that related?
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#34Why are there not more developers? Is ratspeak where they all prefer to be? Also reticulum and crypto seem like they go together. Non-http crypto transactions? What about entirely-non-http blockchains? A new bitcoin that is completely off the internet as we know it??
What would be the benefit of not using tcp or http ? It is used only as a way to transport binary data.
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#35Why are there not more developers? Is ratspeak where they all prefer to be? Also reticulum and crypto seem like they go together. Non-http crypto transactions? What about entirely-non-http blockchains? A new bitcoin that is completely off the internet as we know it??
Mark accepts outside contributions over LXMF using git patches. The main communication method is over Reticulum Relay Chat using clients like NomadNet (made by Mark, unintuitive but works well) which is basically IRC and is purely sending messages to everyone in that channel at that time and is centralised around self hosted servers.
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#37While the project is interesting from a technical perspective, there are some serious issues. The main implementation has a vague, non-standard licence, but this is not overly problematic as alternative implementations can simply be used instead. A bigger problem with Reticulum is that it does not appear to offer robust protection against abuse. Messages are protected by cryptography, but there are many other ways to render a network unusable, which will inevitably happen on a larger scale.
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#38https://ratspeak.org/ seems like a modern fork of Reticulum built in Rust and with a fairly active community
Unfortunate name for the project.
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#39it'd be nice to see a comparison to rayfish.xyz
Different animal altogether.
Rayfish, Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netbird etc are a different category of tool, designed to facilitate connectivity between you and your own pool of machines. They don't generally do much in the way of multi-hop routing, but rather they orchestrate VPN tunnels on top of another routed network (like the internet).
Reticulum would be better compared to Yggdrasil, cjdns etc as routing schemes for larger networks or true meshes, which can work independently of (and have no dependency upon) the internet.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
It has nothing to do with that, like at all.
Not in a technical sense, no. But at a high level, in spirit, I can see some overlap.
In the same way that you can hack apart a loaf of bread with a spoon, yes, but they are very different things with different goals.