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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'm experimenting with #LoRa off-grid #mesh communication ๐โโ๏ธ
@_elena
Oh my goddness... I am looking at the mirror
@_elena awesome! Your path sets an example. I try to follow. Let's continue this and please share every step as you already do: this helps to follow ;)
Now I want to know more about this radio thing. @projetslibres_podcast please tell me you have some content about that ?!
The Fedi is a trap!
I'm degooglifying, demicroslopping, detwittered, avoid Adobe, & only use Messenger because family & friends won't leave.
I've got Linux on my PC, & expect to switch my laptop. Seriously considering setting up my old Pixel Pro 7 (a crap phone I won't recommend) with GrapheneOS, because why not, it'll be fun.
Occasionally I think about self hosting, & I really want to get into Home Assistant.
A TRAP! ๐
@_elena For the heltec, if you plan to use Meshtastic near Paris, you will have to make cautious choices over the frequency/mode to use : https://wiki.mesh-idf.fr might be a good read if not already seen
@_elena Autour de Paris, beaucoup de rรฉseaux cohabitent et au fil des annรฉes les passionnรฉs se sont cherchรฉ une combinaison frรฉquence / mode qui nโest pas trop โparasitรฉeโ il y a eu une pรฉriode oรน la pratique รฉtait dโutiliser โlongModerateโ et maintenant il est conseillรฉ dโutiliser โmediumfastโ. Dans tous les cas, je ne capte pas grand-chose au nord du val dโOise, je dois me rapprocher dโune zone plus dense pour voir dโautres nodes. Mais dans Paris ce doit รชtre possible dโรฉtablir un large rรฉseau. En campagne, ici ou dans ma terre dโorigine, lโadoption nโest pas folle et je nโai pas beaucoup vu dโautres nodes (ceci dit mon heltec v3 nโa pas dโampli et je nโai pas non plus cherchรฉ ร fixer une antenne en hauteur). La population de la campagne est peut รชtre moins โgeekโ. Jโespรจre que tu auras pas mal de contacts en Italie. Jโaime lโidรฉe de rรฉseaux autonomes utiles en cas de catastrophe majeure. Meshcore est parait-il plus adaptรฉ ร des zones denses car il corrige le dรฉfaut majeur de Meshtastic qui est de toujours rรฉpรฉter dโun node ร un autre, ce qui sature vite le rรฉseau. Il y a bcp de choses ร explorer. Have fun!
@_elena je pense quโinvestir dans deux heltec peut รชtre une bonne idรฉe (รงa nโest, au global, pas trรจs coรปteux: la carte ne coute pas grand chose) avec lโun en meshcore et lโautre en Meshtastic. Je pense faire รงa dans le futur. Il y a ensuite le sujet du boรฎtier : si tu as la chance dโavoir une imprimante 3D: jโai vu pas mal de boรฎtiers ร imprimer. Moi jโavais achetรฉ 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 mรฉdaille: envoyรฉ depuis UK donc des taxes dโimportation plus coรปteuses que le produit lui mรชmeโฆ
Done the whole YunoHost thing as well, having no part in Making America Great Again, trying to be European tech sovereignty focused.
Does mesh radio communication allow certain apps to communicate? E.g. can Mastodon or Matrix run over mesh radio?
Look at you go Elean. That is fantastic news so far. You are self made techie.
I totally understand. Its so cool though that you are into self-hosting and learning your way around.
@_elena Hi there Thank you for your inspiration but when I see my money maybe itโs hard to self host TT
@_elena Ooooh. Let me know what you find out about Heltec and mesh radio!
@_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 ๐ Just so you know what to expect!
@_elena Tech people do doomsday prepping in a different way. Lol.
@_elena
One of us! One of us!
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