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 threadCavyherdMar 3

@_elena

I love the idea of #MeshNet; my one question is: does it have the capacity to support modern the internet? (I'm assuming, frex, video streaming is probably right out...?)

Show threadderptronMar 3

@cavyherd @_elena Quick web search on the max bandwidth for LoRa has you hitting 50kbps at the very top. So this is around dialup speed. You probably won't actually achieve those speeds most the time.

Meshtastic might not even come close. It's got a different focus than pushing as much through as possible to hit that max limit.

Show threadCavyherd

@crazyeddie @_elena

Oh, thank you. So not intended as a replacement for wire & fiber optic internet. Thank you for the clarification.

Mar 3 at 4:32pmWeb