My experience of the #fediverse :
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@_elena Iβd suggest buy two nodes, so you can tell if itβs 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, thereβs MeshCore and Meshtastic, itβs worth being on both depending on the exact area (some are more MeshCore, some are more Meshtastic), so really, Iβd suggest getting four nodes!
Youβll 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 youβre into it and canβt stop buying nodes (too early to reveal that?) pikopublish.ing/u0421793/bolg/whichradio.xhtml@u0421793 thank you for all the helpful insights Ian. I've bookmarked your toot and I will definitely use it as reference π
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@_elena watch out! Speaking of MacGyver can be used as an age verification criterion... π
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@_elena ππ»
I'm starting my Big Tech de-cluttering.
If it's not a secret, what else are you self-hosting?@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 itEdit/Update: I'm not self-hosting it but paying for Linkwarden (a FOSS Pocket alternative)
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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 πββοΈ@_elena it's very hard to get people's on fediverse or #opensource platform. I barely managed to get 3 friends over signal from WhatsApp. π. Nobody wants to leave WhatsApp or insta π .whenever I tell them about signal or Mastodon they laughed and asked me... What? Signal? Mastodon?
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@_elena it's very hard to get people's on fediverse or #opensource platform. I barely managed to get 3 friends over signal from WhatsApp. π. Nobody wants to leave WhatsApp or insta π .whenever I tell them about signal or Mastodon they laughed and asked me... What? Signal? Mastodon?
@GOKUSHRM @_elena 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
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@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 π
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@GOKUSHRM @_elena 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
@synnef @GOKUSHRM I wrote about how I deleted my Whatsapp account and moved to Signal in January 2020: https://therealists.org/2020/01/quitting-whatsapp-facebook-s-grand-illusion/
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 π
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
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@kiwiWolle hahaha π π₯°
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@qgustavor @mo Iβve seen it coming from other instances, too
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@stefano I was thinking: why does no one make a filter that automatically detects and bans those accounts?
Then I noticed the issue: it would not work. Even if someone provided a closed-source obfuscated plugin so spammers can't just check the source to work around this, they would just reverse engineer this. And having each instance admin develop their own filter is impossible.
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@kiwiWolle hahaha π π₯°
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@synnef @GOKUSHRM I wrote about how I deleted my Whatsapp account and moved to Signal in January 2020: https://therealists.org/2020/01/quitting-whatsapp-facebook-s-grand-illusion/
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 π
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
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@GOKUSHRM @_elena 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
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@peteorrall @stefano I've seen this spam exactly once (and reported it). Everything seems to be working fine.
