That is very interesting.
I don't know anything about lora32 networks, so I will have to do some homework.
Where are you located? I would be really interested in doing some media/ documentation with you about that.
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Personally, I'm in Decatur, TX. About an hour north of Fort Worth.
Lora32 are the hardware for meshtastic networks, sorry, should've been more clear. You keep a personal node on you within Bluetooth range, and run the messaging app on your phone. Send a message through your phone app, which bluetooths it to your node, which puts it in the air as radio. In the US, they run on 915MHz band.
Your group/chat is encrypted, and only accessible if the creator of your network gives you access. Of course, the transmission can be "heard" by anyone with a receiver tuned to your radio frequency, but it can't be easily unencrypted. The idea is that you're setting up your own private text network that's encrypted.
Once you have a mesh set up,other folks can send messages on it that you can't read, and you can send on theirs too. It's pretty cool, I'm excited to be working on it. I'll make a post on it ßoon and try to remember to tag you so I can share. It's neat to have stumbled across someone else on here talking about this. :)
Very interesting. Yes, please tag me or whatever any time.
So, this lora32 is primarily for simple text?
What I'm thinking of with the meshnets I would like to try is mostly wireless nodes running on standard wireless bands using CJDNS to encrypt point to point comms. This could be a Raspberry Pi running a Nextcloud install that would seems like a very versatile tool.
These nodes could run a closed net or they could even share internet connections. Really, any network server or service could be run on them.
CJDNS is actually an overlay, so I'm supposing it could carry the net you are speaking of also.
I too am stoked to meet other like minded folks working on these things. I hope we can light a fire.