Elena Rossini ⁂Mar 3

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 💁‍♀️

Show threadIan K TindaleMar 3
@_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
Show threadmichaelMar 3
@u0421793 @_elena Oh this is good! Do you mind if I post over at the meshtastic lemmy community? Ive been thinking of getting my parents a really easy to use node since they want one but dont know where to start. I would pay for the simplest node in the world for them.
Show threadIan K Tindale
@michael @_elena go for it - but set the expectations low (ie here try this, it doesn’t work)
Mar 3 at 4:18pmWeb
Show threadmichaelMar 3

@u0421793 @_elena Thanks! I posted is here:

https://piefed.social/c/meshtastic/p/1838419/which-mesh-radio-to-give-to-family-members#post_replies

Which mesh radio to give to family members

Which mesh radio to give to family members First seen here: https://toot.pikopublish.ing/notes/aje5bor6nxg7pp4b