@_elena is who the Fediverse needed 10 like years ago. A great communicator with an unbelievable talent, not only to tell a story, but also to visualize it in a way, that everyone watching her four-minute video should ask themselves: „Why in the world am I still wasting my life in capitalist-social-media-bunkers instead of using the second-greatest thing since Tim Berners-Lee invented the internet.“
In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance…) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.
I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).
The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️
I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.
Lastly, I’m thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum – thank you @j12t and @anca
The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.
I hope you’ll enjoy it! It’s been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)… I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌
Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots – sorry I couldn’t include everyone 🥲
I consider myself a veteran of the Fediverse, since I joined it already in 2018. Long before Elon became a fascist-lover and Trump happened (again). But what did I know? Compared to all the people who were part of it already. Since Hubzilla, which I used at the time, didn’t really succeed to become my permanent place on the interwebs – because primarily I failed managing it – it took me a long time and several attempts to build such a home. Only until about 5 years later, @pfefferle came along and build the @activitypub.blog Plugin for WordPress.
So what you are reading is a personal, private blog. Probably something you are familiar with, since you are online. Just another random website. Like so many. Nothing special at all. Just a WordPress blog.
But since you came here, because you probably found it in your Fediverse-Timeline on Mastodon or Friendica or whatever flavor of Fediverse-Server you use, you already know the trick… because this website is federated! And such is this blog.
Now, let me join Elena in repeating her message and expanding it a bit:
„If you run a website on WordPress AND you want people to find and interact with it (you!), get the plugin, activate it and let the magic of federation happen!“
@ruhrwellenreiter awwww thank you for the great compliment 🥰 ❤️ ✨ Well, *I* needed the Fediverse 10 years ago. I wasted too much time on Big Tech social platforms
@pfefferle@_elena@ruhrwellenreiter@activitypub.blog it was, but not easy to happen upon. you had to be looking for it and you needed a way to build your network. i joined diaspora in 2011 but it was never useful
That’s probably true. I remember reading about Disaspora in the German newspaper „taz“. If I remember right, the current @tazgetroete account started on one of it’s early servers, long before they did on any other platform. But it’s been a niche inside a niche then – and didn’t get me to register there at the time.
We all did, Elena. We all did! And you are most welcome, because it is true! Thank you so much for taking the time on what must be just another busy day for you and stopping by, leaving a comment on my humble post! ❤️
Do you plan to also publish the video on the corporate networks? As much as I dislike them. In my humble opinion, for which nobody has been asking: This is a message which really needs to go there and reach the people! 🤔
Elena Rossini ⁂
@ruhrwellenreiter thank you for your comment! My amazing interns have been creating shorter cuts of the video aimed to be shared on Big Tech platforms. We’ll make them available next week.
I don’t have social media profiles there anymore, but I may re-activate my Instagram and LinkedIn for a hot minute just to share the video. I basically left by doing an Irish goodbye and not even announcing I was leaving 😅
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