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Add LoRa mesh communication

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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
I want to have an [offline LoRa mesh communication](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DumgHz56IjI) available in Element., maybe it could be interoperable with [meshtastic](https://meshtastic.letstalkthis.com/).

If possible there should be an Element bridge in the [open-street-maps app](https://www.openstreetmap.de/) or the [ATAK app](https://www.civtak.org/download-atak/) like [T.REX ARMS](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuQERL_e8M) is suggesting, for critical off grid situations.
If a LoRa voice communication like [QMesh](https://hackaday.io/project/161491-qmesh-a-lora-based-voice-mesh-network) would be available, it would be incredible.

#### Why would you like to do it?
This would provide reliable off grid communication. It would revolutionize communication, and give us tools we can depend upon for extreme situations.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

For the mesh networks, there should be an option, that mesh groups could be linked through the internet connection of members who are connected to the internet.

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