PierMesh

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What is PierMesh?
A new internet for lgbt+ and other marginalized people most impacted by the whims of tech giants

- A LoRa (long range low power radio) based mesh network
- FOSS (free and open source down to the firmware and potentially beyond)
- Easy and cheap (mostly free) to connect to
- Encrypted (thanks Meshtastic!)

Status: Research and development phase, web technologies are actively under development by utopicwork/Agie that will enable this project

How will it work?

Seamlessly, the network will be accessible via web interface for end users and via multiple interfaces for operators which can be exposed to the wider internet if desired

Socials: utopicwork on tumblr and bluesky
Links: piermesh.net
Font: reforma by pampatype

Other notes:
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- Support for operators/users with DID is built in at the core via an easily changed display name
- Support for setting fields to any language available via Unicode characters will be built in
- It is not social media itself it is an alternative to the existing internet infrastructure, it's less Mastodon and more ISP
- It will be a lot slower than broadband at least at the beginning, this is not a 1 to 1 replacement

Updates:
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April 28, 2024: You can now subscribe to an RSS feed of my work (including PierMesh) with this link: https://utopic.work/devlogs/feed.rss

April 24, 2024: Devlogs for all my projects can be found here now: https://utopic.work/devlogs/ currently it's not filtered by projects but at some point Ill create that functionality

April 23, 2024: Refactoring tests succeeding, breakthrough on n dimensional networking

April 14, 2024: Cut text packet size by 75%+ using LZMA, got my Tumblr back

April 11, 2024: End to end encryption core working, full implementation is almost complete. Packet templating implemented. Modular/object oriented code refactor almost complete. Work Tumblr was deleted for some unknown reason, moved entirely to Bluesky

April 4, 2024: Hopper begins development, Microplane officially reaches prototype status

April 2, 2024: Daisy and Catch reach prototype status

March 31, 2024: Development begins on Daisy, Bubble, Catch

March 29, 2024: First successful html transmission/parsing

March 19, 2024: Website updates, started components list

March 15, 2024: First successful programmatic transmission test, arbitrary JSON can now be sent and received.

March 5th, 2024: Site created, more coming soon

Components:
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Microplane: algorithm to split files/data into properly sized packets for LoRa

Status: prototype

Catch: DNS analog

Status: prototype

Daisy: bson disk based distributed database

Status: prototype


Hopper: algorithm for consuming other network resources

Status: in development

Bubble: algorithm for peer to peer communication

Status: in development

Siph: multi dimensional software defined network stack

Status: breakthrough due to discovery of hypergraphs, planning close to prototyping

Pail: Daisy support for distributed graphs (gardens) and hypergraphs (greenhouses)

Status: planning

Sessions: Connection sessions to maintain continuous peer to peer connection

Status: planning


Contact info: info@piermesh.net

Support the project:

Cashapp: $cmder
Venmo: AGIEF
Liberapay: utopicwork
Ko-fi: wizdevgirl

We are looking for funding, if this project sounds interesting to you and you'd like to help please let us know, this project is primarily done by two trans women with precarious housing so any backing will go a long way