An Introduction to Meshtastic | Hacker News

Hacker News discussed Meshtastic and Meshcore as low-cost LoRa mesh messaging systems for offline text communication.

The post compared their routing approaches and noted that both use license-free radio bands with optional encryption.

Commenters highlighted use cases such as camping, remote communication, IoT projects, and disaster response.

The thread also noted that adoption is still limited in many places, despite interest in decentralized, internet-free messaging.