The gist: The internet has become incredibly centralized. Reticulum is a protocol (and supporting hardware and software) that aims at using any physical means of communicating (e.g. wifi, or any other wireless connection) data to build a communication network. Anonymous and encrypted by default.
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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The sole developer isn't actively supporting Reticulum anymore:
"The software remains available for use as-is. Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, but there will be no support, no responses to issues, no discussions, and no community management in this or any other public venue. If it doesn't work for you, it doesn't work. That is the entire extent of available troubleshooting assistance I can offer you."
The latest release is dated 2 days ago https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum . Actively supporting is not the same as actively developing.
This should probably be taken as "I am tired of supporting everyone who did not RTFM, too bad if you can't make it work" and is a totally reasonable thing to do, especially as the project gain more traction.
There is a pretty good community around reticulum that is usually supportive.
Where are you getting this info from? The last release was 2 days ago https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum and there is an active community porting it to different languages and working on related projects https://awesome-reticulum.net/ .
Mesh networking at a fraction of a fraction of speeds of traditional infra.
That's only with R-nodes, which are L-O-R-A. If doing it over a faster connection such as an ethernet cable, a wireless Wi-Fi type link, etc., it can do 40 MBPS according to the documentation.
And also, people are really spoiled with existing internet speeds. When I joined the Internet it was still relying on telephone modems for much of the connectivity. There's plenty you can do with that. The Fediverse, right here, is an example - just ordinary text communication.
I agree. Here at my house, I have fiber, but I only pay for 100 mbps because it's the absolute cheapest plan I can possibly get. And if they offered something cheaper, and possibly even slower, I would be willing to accept that. Say 50 would be perfectly fine for me.
Now, admittedly, I wouldn't want to go much under 50, but 40 and 50 is a perfectly serviceable connection.
I'm not going to watch a video about it; But I assume the name is inspired by Neal Stephenson's Anathem? That'd make sense...
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