@femmepraytell I discovered Meshtastic a little over a year ago and got setup with some radios and gadgets to use with it, convinced a few friends to also check it out. Its really neat but not all too practical compared to some other standards that use the same tech. Meshcore uses the same LoRa devices but is built in a way that allows for much larger reach and works more efficiently in general (not to say its “better” then meshtastic, but its more practical at the moment)

Here in the pacific north west we have regular comms on meshcore across all of oregon and a good part of washington consistantly, with seattle and even futher away to BC, Canada coming in too on a good day.

As to the improving the community part: Its useful during protests and for operations where you need comms but wouldn’t want to use a cell phone or have access to wifi. There’s a #Icewatch channel that gets used occasionally to report on activity locally, another benefit being that there is no way to censor or shut down a meshcore (or meshtastic) channel in the way they could with something like a discord or website.

It’s perhaps still niche at the moment, but the potential is pretty huge. The gadgets are also incredibly versatile, if meshcore or meshtastic dont end up being your jam, there is also chatterbox, and reticulum.

You can count on a sizeable court watch crowd and associated protest infront of the Federal Building at 915 2nd Ave this Friday the 13th.

Court starts at 9am and I'm sure the crowd will be monitoring the court proceedings and ICE activity closely.

#PNW #ICE #courtwatch #seattleprotest #ChingaLaMigra #FuckICE #ICEWatch