I’ve been seeing news about the Helium network for quite a while now and have been curious about it. However, it has been near-impossible to find information on it that isn’t either crypto-hypeman speak or “lol crypto LMAO”. Not a big fan of crypto myself - just interested in the prospect of contributing to a large-scale infrastructure or computing project. Any recommendations for similar things, or in this ‘genre’, I suppose?
Helium was interesting, but they locked it down so you can only use their proprietary hardware for access points, it seems kinda scammy.
IPFS is used by several archive projects like Anna’s archive and libgen.
Meshtastic is a distributed local mesh network for text messaging.