I just tried out FT8 and WOW i do not understand why it is so popular. In JS8 you can at least have conversations and do fun things like relay and message storage but FT8 just has a predefined script.
And thats it.
Does it not get boring?
I just wanted to put out there that Reticulum is and should be considered so much more than just RNodes meshed together. Arguably it's even a bad idea to rely solely on RNodes because the protocol is less efficient over LoRa than e.g. Meshcore.
What Reticulum allows is to build insane (local) hybrid networks with fast backbones via Wifi, 60GHz links and Ethernet with secondary last-mile interfaces built over LoRa and other slow modes.
I read somewhere recently that you can even push Reticulum traffic via Meshcore, just to give you an idea how insanely powerful and flexible this thing is.
Be creative and build the mother of all mesh networks =)