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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in reply to @3rik@oslo.town • • •Luca Sironi
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2027 is #proxmox year, when you will move all your services on a #homelab
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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.
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) • • •Leonieke
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •So recognisable!
(and yes, I've recently purchased a lilygo-tdeck for lora/meshcore communication)
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸 • • •@fmors 14 years on Twitter (2008-2022) and I didn't learn a single thing.
4 years on the Fediverse and I feel like MacGyver 😂
Fernando M. S. 🇵🇸
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •My favourite toot of the year so far :D
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Elena for President!
Country to be determined.
Although FediVerse sounds good.
🥰
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to kiwiWolle • • •banshee7076
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I'm starting my Big Tech de-cluttering.
If it's not a secret, what else are you self-hosting?
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to banshee7076 • • •awesome!
In terms of other things I'm self-hosting:
- Umami (a privacy-respecting, FOSS, Google Analytics alternative)
- LinkStack (a FOSS Linktree alternative)
- Pixelfed
- I just installed AppFlowy (a FOSS Notion alternative) but I have yet to set it up and try it
Edit/Update: I'm not self-hosting it but paying for Linkwarden (a FOSS Pocket alternative)
Rebecca Segers
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I'm glad that your experience has worked out so well. My year 1 mirrored yours and has continued to be so largely bc the fediverse seems oriented toward and around techies. I'm not one and am not interested in becoming one.
So how do I find community here?
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Rebecca Segers • • •@rebelyn2 I would say follow a lot of hashtags of topics that interest you and you will find your people...
I love this about the fediverse, that you can simply follow hashtags and easily populate your feed with interesting content....
Justin Macleod
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Patrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺
in reply to Justin Macleod • • •@JustinMac84 You could try to follow #musicproduction or reach out using that tag.
@_elena
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Patrick Laimbock 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 • • •sknob
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@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.
nham.co.uk/2025/06/how-do-i-co…
“How do I connect with artists on the Fediverse?” Cheat Sheet
NHAMElena Rossini ⁂
in reply to sknob • • •@sknob thank you for helping!!!!!!! 🏆 🙏
@plaimbock @JustinMac84 @prinlu
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in reply to ĞÖKÜ👻👻™ • • •@GOKUSHRM the few people i've managed to convince to open a Signal account just message me through WhatsApp anyway, or uninstall the app after a few weeks
more attention needs to be brought to the fact that WhatsApp is extremely likely to be backdoored and it's owned by an *evil* corporation that lives off of exploiting people's interests or insecurities for hyper-targeted advertising, it's in their best interest to PRETEND their platform is secure so users think they're not being watched
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Synnef • • •@synnef @GOKUSHRM I wrote about how I deleted my Whatsapp account and moved to Signal in January 2020: therealists.org/2020/01/quitti…
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
ĞÖKÜ👻👻™
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Ian K Tindale
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Ian K Tindale • • •michael
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in reply to Ian K Tindale • • •Thanks! I posted is here:
piefed.social/c/meshtastic/p/1…
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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!
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Jockolato • • •@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: doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_…
Install on... | Yunohost
doc.yunohost.orgDoomsdaysCW
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in reply to DoomsdaysCW • • •michael
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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
mander.xyz/c/meshtastic
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •You know...I have a project that uses #yunohost and #meshtastic together. Maybe I should do a blog post or something.
Its a once a day weather report for my region. It posts at around 6:00 am the weather pulled from NWS. Its useful both as a weather report but also a test to see if people get the messages. If they do, they know their node is in a good spot.
Looks like this:
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to michael • • •AI6YR Ben
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@michael
I've moved over to Meshcore, but I was playing around with that recently too.
michael
in reply to AI6YR Ben • • •Yeah I like core more for its functionality. My hope is that both tastic and core will have interop at some point...
meshtastic seems like it does better ATM because of hte number of nodes. But its still a hit or miss if the messages actually get to the sender.
Meshcore seems better at actually communicating over state lines. But the client still has a lot of work to do. And there is less nodes in particular. But its still free...so I shoudnt complain too much.
nice script! Looks familiar :D
Elena Rossini ⁂
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Nibbler2 - Portable MeshCore Meshtastic Node case with SMA Connector o
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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! 😂
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to thefathippy • • •@thefathippy a trap indeed! 😂
BTW I’m loving GrapheneOS on my other phone
Virginie Dewulf --> #FOSDEM
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Now I want to know more about this radio thing. @projetslibres_podcast please tell me you have some content about that ?!
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Virginie Dewulf --> #FOSDEM • • •Tomi the Slav and 1024 others
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Rapha3l
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •@meshtastic
Yes, off-grid mesh radio communication is very fascinating...
#meshtastic
wikiyu
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in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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 ⁂
in reply to Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪 • • •@kristoff hahaha actually my plan for years 4-5 is to learn FreeBSD 😅
The ham radio license would be a dream!
Kristoff Bonne 🇪🇺 🇧🇪
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •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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