Mastodawn

You remember how it felt to get a Gmail address in 2004? When you had to know someone to get in? And having one meant something? Or how about the people who grabbed the first dot coms in 1995?

There’s a window like that again right now, and most people don’t even know it’s open.

https://open.substack.com/pub/zachperlman/p/host-your-website-on-the-mesh?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#reticulum #meshtastic #meshcore #nomadnet

Host Your Website on the Mesh

You remember how it felt to get a Gmail address in 2004?

Zachary A. Perlman

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James 18h ago

@perlman Having some trouble with this. Is it necessary to install Reticulum first, or should this run just by following these instructions alone?
When I follow the steps down to searching for that Star Node hash string, Nomad Netbrowser throws an error message and I can't work out why. Doesn't matter which public entry point I use.

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Zach Perlman 18h ago

@james Thanks for your question, James! Reticulum doesn't need to be installed separately. It comes in as a dependency automatically.

This might be the issue to fix: Reticulum starts with only the AutoInterface enabled by default, which does local network discovery only. Without a TCPClientInterface pointing at a backbone node, there's no route to anything on the wider mesh.

Double check the TCP block from Step 2, save the file, and restart Nomad NetBrowser. See if that helps! Fingers crossed!

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James 8h ago

@perlman Whether I use the Python script to set everything up automatically or copy config data across manually from the map, I still get the same results. There aren't many nodes on there that show up as public gateways so I'm not sure what else to do.
If this is all happening over the internet, would DNS settings make a difference?

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MarSik 5h ago

@perlman

Reinventing *everything* from scratch is wrong.

The prime example: the Micron markup. Why? Markdown, Asciidoc and even vt100 are more byte efficient (HTML compresses nicely).

You can build your own infra and be your own ISP even using IP. Then use .onion and TOR browser.

Btw, LoRa is ~100kbps max on shared airwaves. Meshtastic in CZ collapsed with low traffic (flood). Meshcore is hitting routing issues (prefix length). Imagine what happens to the mesh when thousands join at once.