I’ve read a little about this tech, isn’t reticulum network way to small to transfer large programs? I thought it was restricted to small instances of text?
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rumba@lemmy.zip 1 day agoThat is exactly it.
Reticulum is a decentralized, mostly anonymous, encrypted network.
rnsgit let’s you host git repos on it.
nomadnet let’s you make 1990’s style webpages on it.
There are proxies and vpns and messaging (LXMF) and telephony (LXST)
DeadEndLink@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
rumba@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
If you’re using a 200bps Lora radio, it’s bad, but there are sites serving multi-GB files over TCP. Network works over hops, if you’re more than a few hops from your target server you can try to find a closer backboth path. There’s also a lot of mirrors going on.
If people started using it in earnest, I’m sure we could come up with a DHT style solution
monotremata@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Neat! Thanks!