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 also been looking for meshtastic stuff, I joined fedi in one of the first big migrations. Never went back haha
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@patpro for sure!
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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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@kristoff hahaha actually my plan for years 4-5 is to learn FreeBSD
The ham radio license would be a dream!
@_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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