Two big advantages imo actually;

1) device agnostic
- laptop, server, radio, phone, etc. 
2) protocol agnostic 
- can communicate with reticulum over UDP/TCP/LoRa/etc. (Can even hand write if desired and decrypt locally!)

I get the power of "2)" which is amazing, but for me (lack of expertise with this) I'm not sure how to exactly set it up to actually send message from laptop via TCP, to multiple different receivers like a remote LoRa device in the mountains & a iPhone on Verizon simultaneously 🤯

I've seen folks do this just have to sit down one weekend and do it myself  

Can't do this with meshtastic (yet [without MQTT]) 

 Let me know when you figured out this multi-device-type communication. That's my end goal. 

 Same will do 🚀