Hope you get in. We need technically minded folk to pick it apart.

@hariette As someone with poor (but still useable) eyesight and low end android hardware. I'll try doing my part to break things (while documenting what I can) to help you improve.

'I'm not using it nor are the people I surround myself with therefore it is a failure.'

I view them embracing federation as a good thing.

I also view it as important for the instances I wish to follow to never federate with them.

Eh. I'll let the younger generation have their fun. These days I'm more interested in the technical aspects than the actual content.

Dude, my bullshit meter blew its fuses and the magic smoke's poured out.

Can confirm. Resources are downright obscenely easy to get hold of especially for getting a tech license. Ditto radios. From el cheapo baofeng to something still cheap but nicer is anywhere from a half to quarter the price of the htx202 I learned on in the 90's, and getting resources on repeaters is also shockingly comprehensive (I had gotten a little red book with bible print sized text with listings.)

Getting into HF is a bit more involved ditto specialty modes, but it is genuinely interesting and worthy of looking at even if you decide to not dive in.

I doubt they actually have been. I suspect this is the excuse they're going to use to enforce normalcy t oreturn. 'Oh all those subs? that was a psyop from blackcat. We de-platformed their mods to ensure that any influince is gone.'

tips tinfoil hat
But seriously. paranoia is a bullshit disease.