mastodon 5.0.0-nightly.2026-10-21Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)
💌 #TheFutureIsFederated
📝 blog: @ele
👩💻 self-hosting newbie: @elena@aseachange.com
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally
Pronouns: she/her
Languages: English, French, Italian
Note: my posts are set to auto-delete* after 2 weeks ⏳
*unless I bookmark them
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 💁♀️
Can you imagine Mastodon raising 100 MILLION dollars from a crypto VC fund and failing to disclose it... for a full year? No I can't either.
And from their actual press release: "The Atmosphere currently contains about 20 billion public records—the posts, likes, comments and other interactions that bring the ecosystem to life. It's an astonishing collection of what open social infrastructure makes possible."
https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b
How I read it: data harvesting at its finest 💁♀️
Dear Fedi friends,
I'd like to put together a list of people who are publicly resisting / calling out LLMs and AI slop.
Why? I enjoy reading my Fediverse feed in topical lists and I need something to counteract the unrelenting AI hype I see in the media.
Do you have any recommendations?
So far, at the top of my list I have:
@timnitGebru@dair-community.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social and @alexhanna of @DAIR@dair-community.social
plus @cwebber@social.coop @jaredwhite@indieweb.social and @tante@tldr.nettime.org
Anyone else to recommend who advocates for #NoAI?
📝 New post 🚀
"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
mentioning @europeanspodcast@mastodon.social @haubles@hachyderm.io @aral@mastodon.ar.al @Gargron@mastodon.social @tferrer@journa.host @rstockm@chaos.social @samvie@chaos.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb
I just visited the website of the European Data Protection Supervisor @EDPS@social.edps.europa.eu and noticed that they have a @Mastodon@mastodon.social icon / link in their social media navigation bar in the upper right side of the screen.
This is simply AMAZING!!!
Thank you so much for being here on the #fediverse and for raising awareness about it with your website visitors ❤️
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu can you please be next? I argued for this in my latest article: https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediverse/
Yesterday my VPS set off a warning, as it was hit by a huge spike in incoming traffic, peaking at 55GB at 2:15pm and lasting for an hour.
Upon investigating, it turns out it was my PeerTube instance that was targeted.
Where did the traffic come from?
meta-externalagent (aka Meta's web crawler which is used to grab content to train its AI system).
I feel a little bit violated thinking my Fediverse promo video was grabbed by it, sigh.
Dear Fedi friends,
By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.
Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️
Dear French-speaking Fedi friends,
I have a favor to ask you:
Could you please complete this survey by @cercle@reseauculture.fr - the test fediverse instance set up by the French Ministry of Culture?
🔗 : https://framaforms.org/mastodonfediverse-la-culture-et-vous-1771542693
It would help them understand what are your wishes and expectations when it comes to fediverse accounts run by cultural institutions.
The survey is totally anonymous and takes a few minutes to fill out.
Thanks!
And please boost 🚀
A month ago there was a lot of buzz on the Fediverse about a new Mastodon server set up by prominent journalists: #TheForkiverse.
There was a rush of sign-ups: nearly 10,000 users in a couple of weeks. People new to the Fediverse, willing to try it out.
It's been hard to gauge how active it still is... so this morning I re-downloaded @IceCubesApp@mastodon.online so I could browse their local timeline.
I've been liking and replying to recent posts. Just doing my little in making them feel seen and welcome 🤗
Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!
We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.
If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?
Thanks! 🙏
Can you please boost this?
There's a ladybug following me everywhere since yesterday.
She roamed near me as I did a video call from my child's room yesterday morning.
Today she flew on my computer monitor and wandered around for a bit. Then I went to shower and she followed me to the bathroom, planting itself on the window. She's very cute.
Do you have any ladybug care tips? How can I help her with food and water?
(My mom says it's still too cold to bring her outside... my 5-year-old is smitten too) 🐞
File under: Big Tech LOLZ
Once every blue moon I check my old Gmail account. My email provider is privacy-focused and based in Europe, but I am not deleting my old Google account in case of impersonation.
Anyhow, this morning I found in my inbox:
Viva FOSS
