Start your own Internet Resiliency Club

I am into Meshtastic but the coverage, at least in Italy, is low and depends a lot on the position. If you are in a city, you can get many neighbors nodes, otherwise you need to be at high altitude, relying on other nodes or use a directional antenna.

Anyway, it's a nice hobby to learn a lot about solar powered systems and antennas/propagation.

I think that one of the best use cases for Meshtastic is to use it during protests, especially in authoritarian countries.

yeah it is kinda like starting your own internet infrastructure.

For protest there are already bluetooth messenger for that:

https://briarproject.org

but yeah it is only for Android.