Too similiar to "soldiering" and nobody wants to go there.

Pinecil is a nice idea until it stops working due to a lack of strain relief for the power input or the clips snap and your tip falls out.

You need a Pinecil to repair your Pinecil and don't forget plenty of spare parts.

Then what?

To me, one of the most interesting parts of Meshtastic is the Websphere MQ roots of MQTT and all the goodness of observability and data analysis that comes from an open message broker.

Light up MQTT-explorer and explore the default topics for a good laugh

Reticulum has more to offer, it’s just not the welcome mat/filter the others are.

Chit-chat is one thing.

the merits of one are largely vibe-coded by one overly enthusiastic guy.

This is wrong.

One guy associated with the project, but never a contributor to the firmware, decided to create his own vibe-coded client/app and to trademark the name of the project. The rest of the team said "no" to that and continued doing what they were doing before.

The reason Meshcore works better for texting is the different routing. It has nothing to do with the recent drama.

This is the first I've heard of it so I guess its not a real project then.

It totally is a real project. Their marketing guy tried to take off with the trademark, long story. He's the vibe coder, and is trying to carry on like it's all good while the community went with the actual firmware/client devs.

I'd argue at this point there's more MeshCore networks in the world than Meshtastic

Oh, the GMV bump would mean a nice bonus

Your move, Jamie

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