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 💁♀️
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116165003587967912
Update: the Heltec v3 is here!!! 🥳
I'll keep you posted regarding my experiment with off-grid mesh communication.
And if you are intrigued about this world, there is a SUPERB documentary about it by @nastasiahadjadji on ARTE (thanks @stereo for the heads-up!)
French version: https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/126484-047-A/tracks/
German version: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/126484-047-A/tracks/
(most of the dialogue is in English so you could follow along even if you don't speak the two languages)
