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 💁♀️
@_elena I'm finding it pretty quiet here to start out as well. But quiet's not necessarily a bad thing as other platforms are noisy. Do you know a hashtag or way to broadcast a question that has a hope of getting answered?
@andyfuturo sure! the hashtag is AskFedi
@_elena Thank you 🙏
@_elena Hi there Thank you for your inspiration but when I see my money maybe it’s hard to self host TT
@mokonoha Understood. That being said, self-hosting could be achieved on an old desktop computer or laptop, FYI. No need for a VPS.
Check out YunoHost's guide: https://doc.yunohost.org/en/admin/get_started/install_on
@_elena OK My country does not know about this thing so it is very hard to find a solution when I stuck a problem. I have been the same problem about hosting self social media. Could you guide me a way somehow for the non technical knowledge thank you
@_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
@_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?
@_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.
