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Isn't there an open source Android mesh network? Based on Wifi or Bluetooth?

I thought I heard about mesh networks being used in protests years ago...?

Do we still not have something viable?

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yggdrasil can use WiFi on Android, I haven't tried it yet - https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/. yggdrasil gives you the ability to use TCP/IP applications over its mesh network but doesn't offer any end-user functionality itself.

Manyverse can use WiFi for decentralised social networking - https://www.manyver.se/. They're currently in the middle of a rewrite of the backend and a protocol switch away from Secure Scuttlebutt to their own protocol currently named PPPPP.

Reticulum/Sideband offers a P2P messaging system over WiFi or other mediums - https://github.com/markqvist/sideband

It's crazy if we don't yet. Hardware decentralization is sorely lacking.

i remember something that was deployed in puerto rico after the hurricane in 2017.. a quick search later: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/a-mesh-network-spontaneous...

... And it looks like the consumer products are all completely unavailable right now. Seems like they're focusing their efforts on rescue, emergency, and tactical products...

Dang it!

I've heard of Briar and Bridgeify and Serval and Meshenger, what others are there?

There is LibreMesh. There are other distros using OLSR and/or B.A.T.M.A.N. routing too.

Check https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/start

https://berty.tech/messenger

https://hyperboria.net, formerly Project Meshnet

You're thinking of this, I think: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireChat

And it was discontinued in 2018 and not open source.

Briar for sure, but Android is hostile to mesh networking (unsurprisingly).

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