https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2026/03/23/meshcore-vs-mesh...
https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2026/03/23/meshcore-vs-mesh...
There's no mention of Meshtastic.
So the split is just a "the development team has nothing to do with the .co.uk site, his youtube channel and discord group", not a fork.
There's a history between Tastic and Core, but it's a different one. Meshtastic doesn't scale that well in urban areas and it seems that some on the Mestastic team didn't see that problem as a priority/ignored the problem/are too stubborn. And then Meshcore is created with a different routing, works much better in practice, proving that the mesh could be much better. In countries like the UK it seems to have replaced Meshtastic in most places.