My experience of the #fediverse :
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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
️@_elena Ooooh. Let me know what you find out about Heltec and mesh radio!
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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 communication️@_elena Be careful! Meshtastic/meshcore starts off cheap. But then you find your house covered in all different types of little radios and wonder how you got here.
GL on the LoRa journey! If your interested, check out the community !meshtastic@mander.xyz
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@_elena I’d suggest buy two nodes, so you can tell if it’s working or not. The second one is always going to be useful if you put it somewhere near you and high up. Having two is reassuring when you see it working between the two.
In fact, there’s MeshCore and Meshtastic, it’s worth being on both depending on the exact area (some are more MeshCore, some are more Meshtastic), so really, I’d suggest getting four nodes!
You’ll end up buying more than that in the long run, maybe not all at once in one go.
I also wrote up a page on which nodes I recommend for giving to family members, once you’re into it and can’t stop buying nodes (too early to reveal that?) pikopublish.ing/u0421793/bolg/whichradio.xhtml -
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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 communication️ -
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 communication️ -
People who use X are increasingly radicalised until they end up as Nazis.
People who use Mastodon are increasingly radicalised until they end up as C programmers.
You meant "end up as transgender furry anarchists who mostly program in Rust". Common typo.
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@cavyherd @_elena Quick web search on the max bandwidth for LoRa has you hitting 50kbps at the very top. So this is around dialup speed. You probably won't actually achieve those speeds most the time.
Meshtastic might not even come close. It's got a different focus than pushing as much through as possible to hit that max limit.
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@synnef @GOKUSHRM I wrote about how I deleted my Whatsapp account and moved to Signal in January 2020: https://therealists.org/2020/01/quitting-whatsapp-facebook-s-grand-illusion/
The post was written at the time of my departure and I convinced 90% of my friends and family to install Signal to keep communicating with me. I got entire groups to move there. My proudest moment in my FOSS journey
For those who didn't move, we kept communicating via SMS or iMessage.
6 years later I feel super grateful about how smooth this transition was
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@cavyherd @_elena Quick web search on the max bandwidth for LoRa has you hitting 50kbps at the very top. So this is around dialup speed. You probably won't actually achieve those speeds most the time.
Meshtastic might not even come close. It's got a different focus than pushing as much through as possible to hit that max limit.
Oh, thank you. So not intended as a replacement for wire & fiber optic internet. Thank you for the clarification.
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@_elena pretty much my journey since birdsite was bought! On the #selfhosting part, though, I went with my own home server running #FreeBSD (ZFS is awesome!).
And regarding #meshtastic, I must warn you that it's a drug. This year I went from "zero" to "regional community builder / crazy dude deploying stealth nodes in trees" in a matter of months
Just so you know what to expect!@py2toz oh dear - I thought self-hosting was addictive enough. Another addictive hobby? I’m in trouble (actually pretty excited TBH)
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@py2toz oh dear - I thought self-hosting was addictive enough. Another addictive hobby? I’m in trouble (actually pretty excited TBH)
@py2toz P.S.: learning freeBSD is my project for 2026-2027
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@_elena Hi there Thank you for your inspiration but when I see my money maybe it’s hard to self host TT
@mokonoha Understood. That being said, self-hosting could be achieved on an old desktop computer or laptop, FYI. No need for a VPS.
Check out YunoHost's guide: https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_started/install_on
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@_elena Be careful! Meshtastic/meshcore starts off cheap. But then you find your house covered in all different types of little radios and wonder how you got here.
GL on the LoRa journey! If your interested, check out the community !meshtastic@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/c/meshtastic@michael ha thank you for the heads-up! I'm already addicted to self-hosting as it is... another addictive hobby? Sign me up
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@_elena Ooooh. Let me know what you find out about Heltec and mesh radio!
@DoomsdaysCW I will definitely write about it
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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 communication️@_elena very recognizable
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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 communication️@_elena I'm finding it pretty quiet here to start out as well. But quiet's not necessarily a bad thing as other platforms are noisy. Do you know a hashtag or way to broadcast a question that has a hope of getting answered?
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@_elena I'm finding it pretty quiet here to start out as well. But quiet's not necessarily a bad thing as other platforms are noisy. Do you know a hashtag or way to broadcast a question that has a hope of getting answered?
@andyfuturo sure! the hashtag is AskFedi
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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 communication️Look at you go Elean. That is fantastic news so far. You are self made techie.
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@superuserdo not a techie yet but a humble disciple in awe of real techies
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