Learning resources

Where to learn more about Reticulum and find other people using it, beyond this wiki. Most of these are maintained by the wider Reticulum community; the list of community links is adapted from the Reticulum community wiki, which keeps a longer one.

Start here

Resource	What it is
reticulum.network	The official site, by Reticulum's author.
The Reticulum Manual	The authoritative reference: concepts, configuration, every interface type, the utilities. Worth reading end to end once.
The Zen of Reticulum	The philosophy and goals behind the design, in a page.
Bootstrapping connectivity	How to reach the peers you want, from the official site.
Reticulum community wiki	Community-written guides, hardware notes and a much longer resource list than this one.
rns.recipes	Community site with a forum and a directory of public transport nodes.
Awesome Reticulum	A curated list of Reticulum projects and tools.

Explainers and guides

• The Reticulum Network and How it Works, a written explainer, and the same author's video Reticulum Network: How it Works and Why it's SO GOOD.
• Installing RNS and NomadNet on Linux, a step-by-step tutorial ending at your first Nomad Network page.
• Reticulum Protocol Textbook, a longer, more formal treatment of the protocol.
• Own the Internet, a community playbook for building mesh networks, written for the person who wants to start.
• Michael Faragher's Reticulum Primer (PDF). Written for an older version, so out of date in places, but still a good introduction.

Talks

• Unstoppable Networks for The People, Mark Qvist's talk at the Chaos Communication Congress, 2024 (YouTube mirror). The best hour-long introduction there is.
• Building Networks with Reticulum, qbit, 2025.
• How do announces work in Reticulum, 2026, a short one on the mechanism behind paths.
• Understanding Reticulum Sovereign Communication Networks, 2026.

Apps and software

Software	What it is	Runs on
MeshChatX	All-in-one client: messaging, calls, files, Nomad Network browser, interface editor. Bundles Reticulum.	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android
Sideband	Messaging, telemetry and remote control, by Reticulum's author. Bundles Reticulum.	Android, Windows, macOS, Linux
Retichat, Columba	Messaging clients for iPhone. Newer than the others; we have not used them ourselves yet.	iOS
Nomad Network	Terminal client: messaging, and browsing and hosting pages inside Reticulum.	Anywhere Python runs
Reticulum	The stack itself, with the rnsd, rnstatus, rnpath, rnprobe, rncp, rnx and rnodeconf tools.	Anywhere Python runs
LXMF	The messaging layer the clients share, and lxmd, the propagation node daemon.	Anywhere Python runs
unsigned.io	RNode hardware and the RNode firmware, from Reticulum's author.

Choosing a client says which of these we recommend and why.

Where people talk

• On Reticulum itself: the community RRC hub, 28c7c1a68c735693aa8e6b8193ed44b2, and the ScotMesh room on our own hub.
• The rns.recipes forum, also reachable inside Reticulum at 9ce92808be498e9e05590ff27cbfdfe4.
• The Reticulum Matrix space, with regional rooms.
• r/reticulum and the Reticulum Zulip.
• GitHub discussions on the Reticulum repository, where the author answers questions.

Other regional networks

Communities doing what ScotMesh does elsewhere; useful for seeing how others solved the same problems.

• ChicagoLand Mesh (USA)
• MichMesh (USA)
• Reticulum Nederland (Netherlands)
• Réseau Libre (Montreal, Canada)
• MESH::IBK (Innsbruck, Austria)
• The regional forum on rns.recipes lists more.

ScotMesh

• The ScotMesh Discord, where most of the community talks.
• scotmesh.uk, the community site and forum, for everything ScotMesh does, Reticulum or not.
• rns.scotmesh.net, the backbone node's own page and live status.
• rnode.scotmesh.net, the flasher.
• About ScotMesh on this wiki.