R. L. Dane 
GNU+Chucho 
@RL_Dane Mi tre ŝatas esperanton sed mi ne parolas multe. Mi forgesis la lingvon ĉar mi ne praktikas.
Mi comprenas tion.
I studied French in high school, but without any avenues to practice it (this was long before Skype), it kinda dwindled.
I know there are some Esperanto practice zoom calls (look on meetup.com) (I run zoom in a firejail on linux, since I obviously don't trust it to have full fs access), but I haven't tried those yet. I'm still learning the basics.
Have you tried duolingo? I'm on there every day now, been practicing for a couple weeks now.
@RL_Dane Yeah I learnt Esperanto thanks to Duolingo. I did all the lessons one or two years ago. Now I don't study too much and I decided to improve my English, basically because my listening is crap and because I started a new job where English is a must.
Esperanto to me is what floss is to software. I believe the international language should be an artificial one, like Esperanto, and not English.
mirabilos@jrballesteros05 @RL_Dane Toki Pona maybe?
@mirabilos @RL_Dane Maybe. I think any artificial language could be ok. Of course I would choose the one which could be easier to learn for everybody. In my opinion with English as international language , the native speakers have advantages in this world.
@jrballesteros05 @RL_Dane yeah, and English is primitive, and its awful mapping between written and spoken language sucks, maybe use Spanish or something…
English has a long and tortured history.
Read some Chaucer if you want to read what English was and could have been.
Totally consistent pronunciation, for one thing.
@RL_Dane @jrballesteros05 do you know any Spanish? Very consistent pronunciation.
@mirabilos @RL_Dane I am a native Spanish speaker. The pronunciation is one of the best things in Spanish but the grammar is very difficult, for example when you conjugate a verb there are changes in almost all pronouns. In conclusion.
English pronunciation is crap but grammar is pretty good.
Spanish pronunciation is pretty good but grammar is such a pain.
@jrballesteros05 @RL_Dane from a native German speaker, I really like classic latin (even though I suck at learning translation vocabulary), the grammar is so much clearer (except in poetic form where sentence order is randomised), you don’t need all those extra words, etc.
Basically I like all those things that got lost on the way via vulgar latin to french/italian/spanish/rätoromanisch/romanian, and which english also lacks or is trying hard to get rid of :/
No, I made the impractical decision to study French (in high school) instead.
More Speakers than you could count, but not a French speaker for miles. And no skype for several years.
@jrballesteros05 @RL_Dane haha possum comprehendere illam sententiam nesciendum Esperantonem.
@mirabilos @RL_Dane Kia lingvo estas tio? Ĝi ŝajnas tre multe esperanton.
@jrballesteros05 @RL_Dane lingua latina est
Esperanto borrows a lot from many romance languages, also English, German/germanic languages, and some eastern European languages.
Knowing English and some French makes learning Esperanto a snap.
The only thing that trips me up is kio/kiom/kie/kiel/tio and other very similar-sounding/looking pronouns/demonstratives/etc.
@RL_Dane @mirabilos That's why I like Esperanto as second language because it tries to get the best of many languages. The "ig" and "iĝ" is something I struggle to understand in Esperanto.
Number6 
Fooey with that pessimism! :P
Honestly, I just find it an entertaining exercise, and it's a better dead-time activity than playing games on my phone. ;)
otfiriT 
@RL_Dane Saluton! Iuj estas ĉi tie, multaj aliaj estas ĉe esperanto.masto.host, kaj certe multaj aliaj estas aliloke en la Federujo. 
Dankon! I'll keep that in mind when I'm ready to start conversing en Esperanto. I'm tre komencanta at the moment XD
Just curious, what software is jam.xwx.moe running? It doesn't look familiar to me.
@RL_Dane Ne ĉesu lerni, and you’ll be able to interparoli sufiĉe bone soon enough! 
jam.xwx.moe runs on Pleroma. It’s one of the more popular microblogging platforms on the Fediverse, well-suited to smaller or weaker servers, since it’s not as demanding as Mastodon or Misskey.
(Not entirely sure if Misskey is demanding of the server side, but as an occasional visitor, the front-end is quite something in that regard.)
Ah, ok. I figured it was Pleroma, but I haven't seen much of it, so I wasn't sure.
People seem very excited about misskey and its forks, but since I usually toot from the commandline (and sometimes via #FediLab on Android), the web interface isn't that important to me.
I wonder how lightweight #Honk is. Probably very.
The #Fediverse really needs a drop-dead easy-to-install server. Something as easy as syncthing would be *amazing* :)
Also, thank you! I've already gotten further than either of my previous attempts. I'm enjoying it. Mainly learning using #Duolingo. Sometimes I look up some words that get confusing (tio, tiom, kio, kiom, ĉar, pro, pro) and keeping notes in #SimpleNote.
Ĝi really estas tre bela lingvo. :)
Mi looking forward al paroli fluently soon :D
@RL_Dane @tirifto I use SimpleNote for short notes I want to automatically synch with other devices. It's not so good if you want to slice or dice your info.
For that #tiddlywiki is my go-to tool.
Here's a 60k entry esperanto dictionary done in TiddlyWiki: https://marxsal.github.io/EODICT/EO-DICT.html
Did you know there's a simplenote cli? look for "sncli" in your os packages, or just do a pipx install sncli
You're right, it's not as organized as a wiki, although it *does* support internal links -- but there's still no hierarchical structure to the notes.
Is there any way to download la vortaro as a plain text file?
The source for the link I provided comes from http://denisowski.org/Esperanto/ESPDIC/espdic_readme.html which has links for downloading the dictionary in text.
I think that's the largest free dictionary I could find at the time.