Yondu on Nostr: Here I also see huge amounts of MeshCore nodes popped up about 1-1.5 months ago, but ...

Here I also see huge amounts of MeshCore nodes popped up about 1-1.5 months ago, but they are in different locations from the Meshtastic nodes, so it seems that this is not that all old Meshtastic nodes just switched over during a couple of weeks, it's really a new and growing adoption. Did we have some big event with MeshCore presentation around the October-December? You need time to buy and install nodes. )
BTW, the similar map of Reticulum nodes does not have it's page on the Reticulum site as far as I can tell, but need to be searched separately: https://rmap.world/
Maybe this is also one of the small but important adoption things which make the difference.
Here is the map for Meshtastic: https://meshmap.net/ (also separate site)
Here is for MeshCore: https://meshcore.co.uk/map.html (here is for MeshCore, integrated)

BTW, why MeshCore is trademarked?? How sure we are about the trustworthiness of the developers, of the map and the quality of the software (e.g. in terms of encryption)?

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In my region they switched to MeshCore, basically all at once.

The problem with Reticulum is that since it is hard to send an unencrypted packet, the experience of group chats was not great. Routing is also tuned for one to one communication. MeshCore does an interesting version of flood routing. But the stack is not very mature. The official app and a few others work well, but it's hard to integrate with machine to machine communication.

What is nice though is that you can have small nodes without the need for a Linux / Android machine to route and store traffic. Even work as full clients. So a simple battery powered esp32 node is all you need. For Reticulum you really need a better machine and esp32+lora is just a radio.

There were efforts to do it in Reticulum too, but that's very alpha.

I think this is like with Nostr, when I first saw the design, I thought it's retarded and it will never work. Yet here we are. Problems were fixed and I find myself writing Nostr apps. Because adoption matters way more than how beautiful the technology is.

I consider Reticulum a work of art. It's beautiful. Every line of code makes sense, it all plays together, it feels like a masterpiece of coding.