Notices by vic (vic@seal.cafe), page 16
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@bonifartius @raccoon @Zerglingman @jeff Meshtastic is one that may be worth watching.
For open-source Helium/TTN equivalent, there's ChirpStack.
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@meowski @raccoon @Zerglingman @jeff The network exists and is actually robust, but it's only useful for tiny amounts of data, and you get nickel-and-dimed for every packet you send.
Most people are interested in setting up hotspots for it for passive revenue generation, but it's not really economical. A hotspot costs $300-900 (plus monthly electricity) and only earns a few dollars per month. Nobody is actually using it for sending data.
Plus Helium just has that "give us all your money" feel. Their HNT crypto-like-currency feels like a half-baked corporate attempt to appeal to "the people" while masking where the real dollars are actually going (into the Helium owners' pockets). It is very much a big Silicon Valley project.
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@jeff @raccoon @Zerglingman Too bad mesh networking never gained mass appeal. The Things Network and Helium were about as close as anyone got to making a real "by the people" internet (though Helium is really just a cash grab).
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@matrix I can feel this image burrowing into my mind and destroying my brain cells as I helplessly try to understand what the author was trying to convey.
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