@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 😂
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@_elena Tech people do doomsday prepping in a different way. Lol.
@_elena
One of us! One of us!
@_elena and here i am...fresh new out of FB hellhole knowing absolutely nothing, wondering left and right and seeing this...is radio communication getting back or do i read it wrong? :O
Haaa looking at meshcore also! :)
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@weldon thank you, I'll check this out (I got multiple recommendations about it)
@_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. 😂. Nobody wants to leave WhatsApp or insta 😅.whenever I tell them about signal or Mastodon they laughed and asked me... What? Signal? Mastodon?
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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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@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 😅
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
@_elena so slow, I joined Mastodon in january and already am on Meshcore now ;-). The indoctrination pipeline has accelerated maybe? Looking into Reticulum now to integrate off-grid with grid communication.
@_elena I've noticed a logo of people using Meshtastic and Meshcore on the Fediverse since my return. I haven't done any Lora stuff in a while (got multiple Heltecs and others plus a bunch of antennas). I might have to give it another go one of the days and see how busy the local scene is now.
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@_elena I'm glad that your experience has worked out so well. My year 1 mirrored yours and has continued to be so largely bc the fediverse seems oriented toward and around techies. I'm not one and am not interested in becoming one.
So how do I find community here?
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@rebelyn2 I would say follow a lot of hashtags of topics that interest you and you will find your people...
I love this about the fediverse, that you can simply follow hashtags and easily populate your feed with interesting content....
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@_elena Sorry to but in, but one thing I've never been able to find my people on is sound design. If anyone knows where the sound designers are hanging out and how to find them, I'd be interested to know. the hash tags around sound design that I've tried haven't yielded much.
@[email protected] 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?) https://pikopublish.ing/u0421793/bolg/whichradio.xhtml
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@u0421793 thank you for all the helpful insights Ian. I've bookmarked your toot and I will definitely use it as reference 😊
@_elena 👏🏻
I'm starting my Big Tech de-cluttering.
If it's not a secret, what else are you self-hosting?
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@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 it
Edit/Update: I'm not self-hosting it but paying for Linkwarden (a FOSS Pocket alternative)
@_elena
Year 5 (2027):
Elena for President!
Country to be determined.
Although FediVerse sounds good.
🥰
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@_elena I'm in this picture and I like it.
People who use X are increasingly radicalised until they end up as Nazis.
People who use Mastodon are increasingly radicalised until they end up as C programmers.
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