Do any of you have experience with community mesh networking? It seems like a fun time and a good way to connect with people (socially and technically lol) in the community. Not to mention the possibility of providing at least limited internet access to people who can't access it by conventional means for whatever reason. A community mesh network might also have organizing possibilities - especially because the state or the cops or a company can't just shut it off or look inside it as easily
Only time I ever got buy-in with non-techies was in uni when some friends and I brought the fast as fuck uni fiber speeds to the town bordering campus. On campus was 1Gbps, but the town was a mix of 4 different copper line providers with max speeds of 25Mbps/5Mbps. This was early days for some of that stuff, circa 2011.
Hell yeah, did that get people interested at all beyond self-interest? Bringing fast internet connection to people is cool and good too ofc