I mean they do have good infrastructure anyway, so it wouldn’t even cost them anything

If you enter a matrix user name on your profile, Lemmy adds an extra button on your profile to “Send Secure Message”. Example: https://monero.town/u/shortwavesurfer

I don’t know if this behavior is default, or if you have to configure something for it, but I think it’s a nice way to bridge forum-like communities with chatrooms (matrix itself can be bridged with irc, discord, telegram).

Greetings from our instance monero.town :)

First things first, you do need a wallet to receive, store and send monero. Good options are:

• official GUI wallet from getmonero.org (PC)
• cake wallet (android, IOS)
• monerujo (android)

Second if you do any open source work, consider putting up a donation address. Donating with Monero is easy, cheap and quick, which makes it a nobrainer. Depending on what you do, you might want a separate wallet for that (maximum anonymity), otherwise a sub-account or sub-address give sufficient private for most users.

Finally if you need larger amounts to spend, you need some exchange. The most popular P2P one is localmonero.co, trocador.app is great if you have other crypto already and kraken.com is the best KYC exchange.

Have fun, and feel free to ask any of us if you have any other questions.