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Revision as of 16:55, 11 September 2026

ScotMesh runs a chat room called scotmesh on an RRC hub (Reticulum Relay Chat): rooms, nicknames, topics and operators, carried entirely over Reticulum. It is the place to say hello, ask for help, and find out who else is on.

	Value
Hub address	`004e5a15da221d9a236b0e8d74195f13`
Room	`scotmesh`

Out of the box

MeshChatX has chat built in. Once you are connected to ScotMesh:

Open the chat section.
The ScotMesh hub appears in the list of hubs once its hourly announce has reached you. If it is not there yet, add it by the address above.
Join the room scotmesh.

Sideband and the iPhone apps are messaging clients and do not do rooms; use MeshChatX for chat, or one of the clients below.

Full installation

With Reticulum installed yourself, any RRC client works: Ratspeak, rrc-tui, rrc-gui, WeeChat (with the RRC plugin) and Eridanus. Point the client at the hub address, then:

/join scotmesh

The hub announces itself every hour, so a client that lists hubs will usually show it without the address being typed.

What to expect

Catching up. When you join you see the latest 25 messages, and /history shows up to 100 more. The hub keeps the room's messages for 7 days and then deletes them.
@mentions reach you when you are away. Write @nick in the room and, if that person is offline, the hub sends them a short LXMF message (through our propagation node if need be) so they know to come and look. To do this it keeps a list of the identities it has met: public key, last nickname and when it last saw them.
Nicknames are yours to choose, and once you have used one it belongs to your Reticulum identity, even while you are offline, so nobody else can take it and @mentions reach one person. If you ask for a name someone already has, you get it with a number on the end (Alex1). Each app or device has its own identity, so a phone and a laptop need different names.
It can be quiet. Scotland is not a big place for Reticulum yet. If nobody answers, leave the window open, or ask on the ScotMesh Discord instead.

Operators

Room operators can set the topic and, if it ever comes to it, remove someone. Ask in the room or on the ScotMesh Discord if you would like operator rights for the scotmesh room; we are glad of the help.

Your own rooms

Anyone connected can create a room on the hub with /join followed by a new name. Rooms exist while someone is in them.

The wider community

The Reticulum community runs its own RRC hub at 28c7c1a68c735693aa8e6b8193ed44b2; see Learning resources for that and the other places people talk.

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 == What to expect ==
-* '''There is no scrollback.''' The hub relays messages live and stores nothing, so anyone joining later starts from silence. That is deliberate: nothing you say is kept on our machine.
+* '''Catching up.''' When you join you see the latest 25 messages, and <code>/history</code> shows up to 100 more. The hub keeps the room's messages for 7 days and then deletes them.
-* '''Nicknames''' are yours to choose. Your Reticulum identity is what the hub actually recognises, so nobody can take your nickname while you are using it.
+* '''@mentions reach you when you are away.''' Write <code>@nick</code> in the room and, if that person is offline, the hub sends them a short LXMF message (through our [[Propagation node|propagation node]] if need be) so they know to come and look. To do this it keeps a list of the identities it has met: public key, last nickname and when it last saw them.
+* '''Nicknames''' are yours to choose, and once you have used one it belongs to your Reticulum identity, even while you are offline, so nobody else can take it and @mentions reach one person. If you ask for a name someone already has, you get it with a number on the end (<code>Alex1</code>). Each app or device has its own identity, so a phone and a laptop need different names.
 * '''It can be quiet.''' Scotland is not a big place for Reticulum yet. If nobody answers, leave the window open, or ask on the [https://discord.gg/ytxfyuDmSt ScotMesh Discord] instead.