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The Man Who Built the Next Internet
and Then Disappeared

#internet #technology #reticulum #networking

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The Man Who Built the Next Internet and Then Disappeared — Node Star

For nearly a decade, Mark Qvist built a privacy-first protocol from scratch and gave it away for free. Then he walked away.
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#Technology #internet #networking #Reticulum

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Julianoë

yes it is. Because when you share information people are going to spend time and energy reading and working on to learn from, you'd rather not see them skip your work because they feel it might have been produced with the intent of just babbling content with no expertise, just for clout, or ads revenue, or influence, or cybersquatting a domain. All those scenarios are very common uses of AI generated content that "look legit" and ends up being a waste of time
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@daks after seing site after site like this I've started to assemble a tracklist of websites who share that very same aesthetics or design similarities. It goes on the list of examples 😉

Thanks for responding. being transparent about it on the website would be a + Imho. The theme targets rather technical people and some might have the same reflex as me: "oh is this website really legit? I've seen a lot of websites like this recently made by AI and the content might be too"

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The Article stated that the forks were wire-compatible.

The Rust port
The more ambitious response was the Rust port. The original Reticulum is written in Python, a programming language that is powerful and readable but slow, and particularly rough on mobile phones and small devices. Developers at Beechat Network Systems built a Reticulum implementation in Rust — a language known for running fast with very little memory overhead. A separate project called Leviculum took a similar approach, and by early 2026 had a functionally complete Rust implementation that was tested against the Python original on real hardware and found to be wire-compatible — meaning both versions speak exactly the same language over the air, and a device running one can talk to a device running the other without either knowing the difference.
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