Tim Chambers

@tchambers@indieweb.social

Hey #Reticulum hobbyists and dev folks. I just installed the "Reticulum Mesh Chat" on my Mac OS and need to learn how to share my account info publicly (and what not to share) and if there are any users up for chatting to help me see this in the wild working. Any advice for newbie getting started welcome.

March 4, 2026 at 6:23:21 PM

I think I need to think about it this way:

I should think of your LXMF address like an email address, except it's a cryptographic hash that looks like this ungainly thing...

2334f2a469a31dde0c1ba57d73222d0e.

...Note that is not mine, not sharing mine til I'm sure I am doing it right.

But that LXMF address is my identity on the network. There are no usernames registered anywhere — I think I share this address with friends directly, out-of-band (Signal, email, etc.) so they can message me.

OK here is my LXMF address and I'll add it into my Mastodon bio too while I'm at it:

LXMF Address c72355885808468cace245e407b9d8a4

This might help if you want to use radio loramesh.org but is heavily linux focussed.....

loramesh.org

lora radio mesh communication

I'm also working to set up reticulum, but more in a lab-style way where I'm deleting and installing new apps and my LXMF ID is constantly changing. Just added your address to my sideband and will send a message once your keys propagate!

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