Meshtastic networks are incredible for messaging and telemetry, but they weren't designed for general Internet access. Each protocol would need custom mesh-aware implementations: a chicken-and-egg problem where applications won't add mesh support without users, and users won't adopt mesh without applications.

deadmesh sits in the middle:

Mesh side: Speaks fluent Meshtastic (protobuf over LoRa serial with proper API handshake)
Internet side: Speaks every protocol your applications already use
Bridges transparently: Fragments outgoing requests, reassembles incoming responses
Target result: Your mesh network works with everything: email clients, web browsers, update tools, API services; without modifying a single line of application code. The gateway proxy pipeline achieves this today; the remaining work is client-side packet delivery over LoRa.

The key architectural insight is treating LoRa as a dumb byte pipe and putting all the intelligence in the proxy layer above it. This is the same move that made TCP/IP win over every purpose-built network protocol in the 1980s. Everything that speaks HTTP already works, forever, without modification. Every protocol deadmesh adds benefits every application simultaneously.