This community is laughably caustic and abusive. My friend attempted to create a simple tutorial site and their org harassed him for over a year. He didn't even mention the word "meshtastic" and they made dozens of false trademark claims that his site could be "confused" with an official site.
I was previously a fan, but I'd never seen behavior like that from an "open source" project.
Heh, that isn't my experience.
I created a client Linux: https://gitlab.com/kop316/gtk-meshtastic-client and even posted it on their discussion page: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99 . One of the maintainers responded positively to me: https://github.com/orgs/meshtastic/discussions/99#discussion... .
One thing to keep in mind is that it's not even a very good mesh network.
There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic. Or find my comments on meshtastic here.
If anything they showed there's demand for a public mesh. Unfortunately, they didn't want to learn from AlohaNet or any of the other meshes.