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My experience of the #fediverse :

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  • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

    My experience of the #fediverse :

    Year 1 (2023):
    It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

    Year 2 (2024):
    I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

    Year 3 (2025):
    My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

    Year 4 (2026):
    I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

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    Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪
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    @_elena
    Year 5 (2027):
    Get into HAB (High Altitude ballooning) and build a federared mesh network with nodes at 10+ km altitude

    Year 6 (2028):
    Get a ham (amateurradio) license

    Year 7 (2029):
    Get into amateur satellite and space based mesh networks 🙂

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    • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

      My experience of the #fediverse :

      Year 1 (2023):
      It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

      Year 2 (2024):
      I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

      Year 3 (2025):
      My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

      Year 4 (2026):
      I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

      QCCEクリスQ This user is from outside of this forum
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      @_elena One day I'll be in year 2

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      • rlonsteinR rlonstein

        @david_chisnall @_elena

        "People who use Mastodon are increasingly radicalised until they end up as C programmers."

        Some people just want to watch the world burn.

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        @rlonstein @david_chisnall @_elena As a person with a moderate commmand of C and a great love for it, it's a thing of beauty. Just like when you are carving your own spoons, you may draw blood, and as a professsional dev environment it gets reduced to smaller and smaller niches, which makes sense for security. But it's a gem, still.

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        • K Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪

          @_elena
          Year 5 (2027):
          Get into HAB (High Altitude ballooning) and build a federared mesh network with nodes at 10+ km altitude

          Year 6 (2028):
          Get a ham (amateurradio) license

          Year 7 (2029):
          Get into amateur satellite and space based mesh networks 🙂

          Elena Rossini ⁂_ This user is from outside of this forum
          Elena Rossini ⁂_ This user is from outside of this forum
          Elena Rossini ⁂
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          @kristoff hahaha actually my plan for years 4-5 is to learn FreeBSD 😅

          The ham radio license would be a dream!

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          • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

            @EnigmaRotor thank you! I was planning to use it mostly in Italy in the countryside, but I will keep this in mind for Paris 🙏

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            EnigmaRotor
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            @_elena Autour de Paris, beaucoup de réseaux cohabitent et au fil des années les passionnés se sont cherché une combinaison fréquence / mode qui n’est pas trop “parasitée” il y a eu une période où la pratique était d’utiliser “longModerate” et maintenant il est conseillé d’utiliser “mediumfast”. Dans tous les cas, je ne capte pas grand-chose au nord du val d’Oise, je dois me rapprocher d’une zone plus dense pour voir d’autres nodes. Mais dans Paris ce doit être possible d’établir un large réseau. En campagne, ici ou dans ma terre d’origine, l’adoption n’est pas folle et je n’ai pas beaucoup vu d’autres nodes (ceci dit mon heltec v3 n’a pas d’ampli et je n’ai pas non plus cherché à fixer une antenne en hauteur). La population de la campagne est peut être moins “geek”. J’espère que tu auras pas mal de contacts en Italie. J’aime l’idée de réseaux autonomes utiles en cas de catastrophe majeure. Meshcore est parait-il plus adapté à des zones denses car il corrige le défaut majeur de Meshtastic qui est de toujours répéter d’un node à un autre, ce qui sature vite le réseau. Il y a bcp de choses à explorer. Have fun!

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            • EnigmaRotorE EnigmaRotor

              @_elena Autour de Paris, beaucoup de réseaux cohabitent et au fil des années les passionnés se sont cherché une combinaison fréquence / mode qui n’est pas trop “parasitée” il y a eu une période où la pratique était d’utiliser “longModerate” et maintenant il est conseillé d’utiliser “mediumfast”. Dans tous les cas, je ne capte pas grand-chose au nord du val d’Oise, je dois me rapprocher d’une zone plus dense pour voir d’autres nodes. Mais dans Paris ce doit être possible d’établir un large réseau. En campagne, ici ou dans ma terre d’origine, l’adoption n’est pas folle et je n’ai pas beaucoup vu d’autres nodes (ceci dit mon heltec v3 n’a pas d’ampli et je n’ai pas non plus cherché à fixer une antenne en hauteur). La population de la campagne est peut être moins “geek”. J’espère que tu auras pas mal de contacts en Italie. J’aime l’idée de réseaux autonomes utiles en cas de catastrophe majeure. Meshcore est parait-il plus adapté à des zones denses car il corrige le défaut majeur de Meshtastic qui est de toujours répéter d’un node à un autre, ce qui sature vite le réseau. Il y a bcp de choses à explorer. Have fun!

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              Elena Rossini ⁂
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              @EnigmaRotor Merci pour l'explication ! J'ai déjà trouvé quelques nœuds près de chez moi en Italie sur la carte Meshcore. Idem pour mon quartier à Paris... mais pas tellement pour la région où vivent mes beaux-parents. J'ai hâte de tester ça !

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              • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

                @EnigmaRotor Merci pour l'explication ! J'ai déjà trouvé quelques nœuds près de chez moi en Italie sur la carte Meshcore. Idem pour mon quartier à Paris... mais pas tellement pour la région où vivent mes beaux-parents. J'ai hâte de tester ça !

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                @_elena je pense qu’investir dans deux heltec peut être une bonne idée (ça n’est, au global, pas très coûteux: la carte ne coute pas grand chose) avec l’un en meshcore et l’autre en Meshtastic. Je pense faire ça dans le futur. Il y a ensuite le sujet du boîtier : si tu as la chance d’avoir une imprimante 3D: j’ai vu pas mal de boîtiers à imprimer. Moi j’avais acheté le mien ici : https://www.zerofox3d.com/products/nibbler2-portable-meshcore-meshtastic-node-case-with-sma-connector-or-internal-antenna pratique avec un clip ceinture. Revers de la médaille: envoyé depuis UK donc des taxes d’importation plus coûteuses que le produit lui même…

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                • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

                  My experience of the #fediverse :

                  Year 1 (2023):
                  It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

                  Year 2 (2024):
                  I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

                  Year 3 (2025):
                  My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

                  Year 4 (2026):
                  I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

                  Mastui - the TUI clientM This user is from outside of this forum
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                  Mastui - the TUI client
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                  @_elena do it. Mesh is a lot of fun

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                  • LeoniekeL Leonieke

                    @_elena So recognisable!

                    (and yes, I've recently purchased a lilygo-tdeck for lora/meshcore communication)

                    Mastui - the TUI clientM This user is from outside of this forum
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                    Mastui - the TUI client
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                    @leonieke @_elena why clostsource meshcore ? Its not really adding anything worth going closed source.

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                    • J Justin Macleod

                      @_elena Sorry to but in, but one thing I've never been able to find my people on is sound design. If anyone knows where the sound designers are hanging out and how to find them, I'd be interested to know. the hash tags around sound design that I've tried haven't yielded much.

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                      Patrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺
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                      @JustinMac84 You could try to follow #musicproduction or reach out using that tag.

                      @_elena

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                      • Patrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺P Patrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺

                        @JustinMac84 You could try to follow #musicproduction or reach out using that tag.

                        @_elena

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                        Elena Rossini ⁂
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                        @plaimbock @JustinMac84 sorry if I forgot to respond Justin (it's been a RIP my mentions kind of day). In terms of advice of people to follow in music production / sound design, maybe @prinlu and @sknob have some leads?

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                        • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

                          @plaimbock @JustinMac84 sorry if I forgot to respond Justin (it's been a RIP my mentions kind of day). In terms of advice of people to follow in music production / sound design, maybe @prinlu and @sknob have some leads?

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                          @_elena @plaimbock @JustinMac84 @prinlu

                          A lot of musicians on the fedi, some of whom might lead you to finding what you’re after. Here’s a handy cheat sheet.

                          https://nham.co.uk/2025/06/how-do-i-connect-with-artists-on-the-fediverse-cheat-sheet/

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                          • sknobS sknob

                            @_elena @plaimbock @JustinMac84 @prinlu

                            A lot of musicians on the fedi, some of whom might lead you to finding what you’re after. Here’s a handy cheat sheet.

                            https://nham.co.uk/2025/06/how-do-i-connect-with-artists-on-the-fediverse-cheat-sheet/

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                            Elena Rossini ⁂
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                            @sknob thank you for helping!!!!!!! 🏆 🙏

                            @plaimbock @JustinMac84 @prinlu

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                            • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

                              My experience of the #fediverse :

                              Year 1 (2023):
                              It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

                              Year 2 (2024):
                              I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

                              Year 3 (2025):
                              My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

                              Year 4 (2026):
                              I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

                              patproP This user is from outside of this forum
                              patproP This user is from outside of this forum
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                              @_elena let us know about the details of your mesh radio experiment, my curiosity is ON. 🙂

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                              • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

                                My experience of the #fediverse :

                                Year 1 (2023):
                                It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

                                Year 2 (2024):
                                I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

                                Year 3 (2025):
                                My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

                                Year 4 (2026):
                                I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

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                                RavenCode
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                                @_elena also been looking for meshtastic stuff, I joined fedi in one of the first big migrations. Never went back haha

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                                • patproP patpro

                                  @_elena let us know about the details of your mesh radio experiment, my curiosity is ON. 🙂

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                                  Elena Rossini ⁂
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                                  @patpro for sure!

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                                  • Mastui - the TUI clientM Mastui - the TUI client

                                    @leonieke @_elena why clostsource meshcore ? Its not really adding anything worth going closed source.

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                                    @Mastui @leonieke @_elena closed source? The firmware is MIT licensed, their exists python-library, someone’s making a rust-library, a healthy ecosystem of software and multiple open source clients exist in app stores.

                                    MeshCore works leaps and bounds better than Meshtastic at actual reliable messaging and delivery with its architecture.

                                    Meshtastic is flooded with telemetry packets and has a hop could default of 3 max 7. MeshCore can go much farther.

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                                    • Elena Rossini ⁂_ Elena Rossini ⁂

                                      @kristoff hahaha actually my plan for years 4-5 is to learn FreeBSD 😅

                                      The ham radio license would be a dream!

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                                      Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪
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                                      @_elena well, next time you come to FOSDEM, feel free to drop by the amateurradio infobooth and will show you all the geekyness and fun radio-technology has to offer.

                                      Usually we are in the AW building. (Can't miss it, it the building with the large radiomast in front of it 😆 )

                                      But, as Michael also mentions below, be carefull, as once you enter the wonderfull and sometimes magical world of radio technology and mesh* networking, there is no way going back. 😀

                                      Enjoy the ride!

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