Sideband
LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports. (by markqvist)
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| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Sideband
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sideband.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-31.
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Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
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
- Sideband v0.4.0 - with Paper Messaging and better hardware support - has been released
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Reticulum Development Roadmap
Related programs such as Sideband and Nomadnet has also had their repositories updated with more visible roadmaps.
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A comparison of various anonymity/privacy focusing networks
Mobile support: Yes, Android only for now though. There is an example Android messaging app that uses Reticulum here: https://github.com/markqvist/sideband. The app source code can be used as an example for others that want to use Reticulum on Android, at least until I get around to writing a full Android development guide. There is some preliminary info in the manaul on the topic here as well: https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#reticulum-on-android
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3 mile text coms no license
While it still requires a few more steps to set up, a system based on Reticulum, using a client like Sideband is a lot more flexible. You can mount the radios in optimal positions, for examples on your roof or another high spot, and Reticulum can automatically bridge the LoRa and your home wifi network, so everyone on the wifi network can share the single radio on your house, without having to connect anything directly to their phones/devices. Here is how one user have utilised this during hurricane Ian.
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⟳ 0 apps added, 6 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Sideband (version 20221005): LXMF client
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⟳ 4 apps added, 10 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Sideband: LXMF client
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Are any of you actually working on privacy-related projects?
I have built a few simple communications tools with Reticulum, Nomadnet and Sideband.
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Internet/ Mobile outage preps
https://reticulum.network https://github.com/markqvist/sideband https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
NomadNet
Posts with mentions or reviews of NomadNet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.
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Reticulum Development Roadmap
Related programs such as Sideband and Nomadnet has also had their repositories updated with more visible roadmaps.
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Are any of you actually working on privacy-related projects?
I have built a few simple communications tools with Reticulum, Nomadnet and Sideband.
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Is there a good chat application for using just over your home ethernet?
While it is definitely not for everyone, you could take a look at Nomad Network and Sideband.
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Using a Th-d74a for more than APRS and Winlink?
If you are in a country that does not disallow encryption on ham radio, you can look at Nomad Network (https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet) or some of then other things you can do with the Reticulum stack (https://reticulum.network).
- Nomadnet is a resilient and encrypted mesh communications platform for the terminal
- Preparing for a possible shutdown of the internet
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Internet/ Mobile outage preps
https://reticulum.network https://github.com/markqvist/sideband https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
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LoRa Text Messaging Networks
Reticulum + LXMF can scale to thousands (or millions) of nodes, and can use LoRa (and many other things) as a physical layer. Nomadnet is a client that allows both instant messaging and delayed-delivery messages (like email): https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Sideband and NomadNet you can also consider the following projects:
TranslateYou - Privacy focused translator app built with MD3
meshtastic - Meshtastic project website and documentation
Reticulum - The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.
fake_contacts - Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning.
meshnet-lab - Emulate huge mobile ad-hoc mesh networks using Linux network namespaces.
quetre - A libre front-end for Quora
libremdb - A free & open source IMDb front-end.
disaster-radio - A (paused) work-in-progress long-range, low-bandwidth wireless disaster recovery mesh network powered by the sun.
Android-DataBackup - DataBackup for Android