Four internets: Reticulum, I2P, Yggdrasil and Nostr side by side
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Reticulum, I2P, Yggdrasil and Nostr keep getting lined up together — and wrongly so. They are not competitors: they fix different floors of the same building. One replaces radio and routing, the second hides who talks to whom, the third hands out addresses, the fourth takes your account away from the platforms.
500 bytesReticulum's MTU. It lives on a 300 bit/s channel — where TCP/IP will not even start
3 + 3Other people's nodes between a client and a site in I2P: its outbound tunnel plus the site's inbound tunnel
0200::/7The Yggdrasil range. An IPv6 address here is a public key fingerprint
0How much Nostr relays know about each other. The client spreads the copies itself