Helium is quite over-the-top in their promises of KYC and constant surveillance, despite their feeble bandwidth. A lot of the others you list are no different.

But they have to be like that - no non-KYC internet will be permitted in the First World, my government would unflinchingly escalate all the way up to airstrikes on our cities to prevent a project openly working on a non-KYC internet. 

Which is a good reason to look into doing just that, especially since KYC network infrastructure is increasingly complex, fragile and supply-chain-dependent.

But to avoid drawing the "Eye if Sauron", we have to start small and build out. 

And avoid single technologies, single suppliers, and unified governance structures, like all the above projects.


Reticulum uses non-KYC globally unique identifiers easily generated and not linked to any other ID, and can bridge multiple physical-layer technologies, including but not limited to LoRaWan.

https://reticulum.network/manual/hardware.html

It is FOSS, and technically quite capable of duplicating the Internet's functionality in a fully decentralised way, but more typically used to create smaller networks of any scale that can easily be bridged.

I already run a Reticulum node over For, but this holiday break I want to test out building some #offgrid LoRa-based nodes. I have the modules sitting there, just need to make the time! Less #nostr shitposting, perhaps :-p