LoRaWAN and mesh are not the same argument
They share a radio layer and almost nothing else. One has a network server and a join procedure; the other has neither, by design. Conflating them makes both sound worse than they are.
mesh
Meshtastic: a node is its key
Dismissed as hikers with walkie-talkies. Read the 2.8 release notes as an identity architecture instead: node IDs derived from public keys, packets signed and no registry to ask because there's nothing there to ask.
