Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network

(reticulum.network)

83 points | by sudo_cowsay 6 hours ago

9 comments

  • clavicle1009 4 minutes ago
    Have you guys heard of Netbird? It's exactly what I was looking for as a Tailscale alternative.
  • Sargos 18 minutes ago
    https://ratspeak.org/ seems like a modern fork of Reticulum built in Rust and with a fairly active community
  • Gigachad 4 hours ago
    > 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.

    • tehlike 3 hours ago
      reticulum don't just propagate over lora. IT can practically propagate over anything it supports (network, lora, bluetooth, etc).
    • 405nm 3 hours ago
      it isn’t
  • QwenGlazer9000 35 minutes ago
    I had a lot of hope for reticulum, but it's a one man project with a near burned out maintainer, taking on an absolutely monstrous task.

    I'm now cautiously optimistic. This or something similar is likely the long term future of mesh networks, but in the short to medium term, meshcore is the way to go.

  • FreezingKeeper 1 hour ago
    Unfortunately whenever I see the name, I am always reminded of part of the anatomy
  • thisisauserid 6 hours ago
    Was also the name of the internet in Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
    • KneeAwn 1 hour ago
      One of my favorite books that I have yet to convince any of my friends to read. So many cool ideas explored.
    • ashton314 4 hours ago
      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.

  • donpdonp 4 hours ago
    it'd be nice to see a comparison to rayfish.xyz
    • highway900 2 hours ago
      Maybe a better comparison is iroh.computer
    • therein 3 hours ago
      It has nothing to do with that, like at all.
      • knowaveragejoe 2 hours ago
        Not in a technical sense, no. But at a high level, in spirit, I can see some overlap.
  • armitron 2 hours ago
    No published specification, single Python implementation. Shame, as this solves a problem that badly needs to be solved well.
  • childintime 4 hours ago
    The resistance is out there somewhere?
    • childintime 1 hour ago
      People don't seem to get this was a genuine question. What is a network without people using it? Anyone here on reticulum?

      The internet may be ripe for disruption, as it has been domesticated for corporate use. It is no longer ours. Browsers have become an operating system unto themselves. Something much simpler would work also. Corporate bloat is continuing to pile up, while markdown evolves to do everything we want.

      • Garlef 27 minutes ago
        > Anyone here on reticulum?

        Is that even the right question?

        I only read the intro message but the framing I arrived/guessed at was:

        "open, distributed alternative to tailscale"

        So I think my first usecase would be to use this instead of tailscale to connect to my Pi?