BTW, Meshcore is MIT and not fully FOSS, while Meshtastic is GPL and fully FOSS.

And both use LoRa which is proprietary.

Fact, but since that’s common and cheap, and I’m not aware of an equivalent FOSS alternative, I’d go with Meshtastic, if were to dabble. And I dabble. :D

I believe the only part of Meshcore that’s not FOSS is the official app, and there’s a FOSS alternative.

Personally, I’d use Meshcore. I tried MT for a month or so. I never saw a conversation, just a few scattered “test” messages. Meanwhile, on MC, I was away from my phone for 4 hours yesterday and came back to 250+ coherent messages in a conversation from all over the region (not to mention the hundreds of test messages).

MT is better in ad-hoc situations since clients can repeat messages.

That’s interesting. I had the same experience with Meshtastic - I ran it for a few months and almost all I saw were test messages and comments about the weather. That encourages me to dig out my radio bits and try MC 😆