I tried it some time ago, and the only way to communicate was to join a channel with someone you already knew (so basically it needed two(+) people to synchronize first in person or over some other channel, and then chat via meshtastic).
Is there something that supports a "public" chatroom? Something that would allow you to set up a node on a window in a large city, become a point in a mesh and be able to join a chatroom with all the other people (that you don't know yet) and chat there?
I don't personally know anyone else who'd use this over some "normal" chat platform, but live in a building high enough to be able to set a possibly usable meshpoint to connect with other enthousiasts and chat about random stuff there.
> Selecting a default or any of the simple values from the following table will use publicly known encryption keys. They're shipped with Meshtastic source code and thus, anyone can listen to messages encrypted by them. They're great for testing and public channels.
In $west_coast_city I've gotten a fair amount of random pings on default settings.
Other projects (using other base technologies) like https://www.arednmesh.org/ are more focused on joining an already-existing network than making your own.
Is there something that supports a "public" chatroom? Something that would allow you to set up a node on a window in a large city, become a point in a mesh and be able to join a chatroom with all the other people (that you don't know yet) and chat there?
I don't personally know anyone else who'd use this over some "normal" chat platform, but live in a building high enough to be able to set a possibly usable meshpoint to connect with other enthousiasts and chat about random stuff there.