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Reticulum is absolutely not flood routed and is not "LoRa-based" lmao. Typical hn comment. Planetary-scale networks is mentioned as a design goal on the first
by AyyEye 9mo ago
Reticulum is absolutely not flood routed and is not "LoRa-based" lmao. Typical hn comment.
Planetary-scale networks is mentioned as a design goal on the first page of the docs https://reticulum.network/ https://reticulum.network/ which are hidden at the very top of the git repo.
- wredcoll 9mo agoDesign goals are great. How do they actually achieve it?
- AyyEye 9mo agoNot with flood routing.
- drob518 9mo agoYes, you said. You’ve been very helpful in telling us how it doesn’t work.
- bigbadfeline 9mo agoflood routing works fine locally, from there on use IP to connect the local networks, no need to reinvent the wheel.
- drob518 9mo agoSure, but The Zen of Reticulum repeatedly says that all that centralized infrastructure is bad, bad, bad. So, it seems a bit like cheating if you still need all that to scale.
- drob518 9mo agoExactly. Okay, that’s a great claim. How? Also, “planetary scale” is meaningless. With the right node count (low), topology, and radios, just about any mesh network can achieve “planetary scale.” But that doesn’t mean it’ll support 10 thousand users, never mind millions. There are underlying technical reasons that the Internet works the way it does.
- drob518 9mo agoOkay, maybe Reticulum isn’t strictly LoRa-based, but others are (e.g. Meshtastic), and while Reticulum works over lots of physical layers, the README specifically states “An open-source LoRa-based interface called RNode has been designed specifically for use with Reticulum.”