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Fesshole 🧻My husband and I arrived at a party and their dog was too excited. I offered to take her for a walk and we jogged around the nearby fields for the next three hours. When we got back, my husband looked pleased to see me and we said goodbye. That is my favourite party ever.
Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Dear Fedi friends,
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
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.
And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly
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 🥲
#TheFutureIsFederated
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
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.
And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly
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 🥲
#TheFutureIsFederated
Jeff GeerlingHoping to get into some #AprilApples fun with my Dad. I have the first computer he ever used (bought it w/ his younger brother in 1979, his brother had it until he died last year). An original Apple ][, with receipt, manuals, and full set of cassettes with software!
Molly White
Historical Wyoming Photos Lara Webb Nichols photo collection from the late 19th century to the mid-20th. … https://www.burytherail.com/2025/01/20/historical-wyoming-photos/
What opera is like a railway? https://www.burytherail.com/2025/01/20/what-opera-is-like-a-railway/
The king of headsets https://www.burytherail.com/2025/01/20/the-king-of-headsets/
daveverseBingeworthy gets some attention
Next up — I'm working on Bingeworthy 3.
It's basically fully ported away from Twitter identity, and also the database got rewritten because I know a lot more about SQL than when I wrote it five years ago. But the user interface code is exactly as it was.
Some features are missing, because they only make sense if there are a few hundred users or more. When and if it sees that kind of use in the future it'll make sense to convert them too.
There's one final step before I can move on, and start building stuff around it, assuming that it exists. Bingeworthy is going to be like the MacWrite or MacPaint of the new ecosystem I'm envisioning built as cousins to WordLand. I will explain as we go.
Anyway this has meant buckling down and using the same identity system as WordLand. It was written to use another system that I wrote that I'm pretty sure I don't need. So that's what remains to be done on Bingeworthy. I am optimistic that I can get it done before Wednesday. 😄
But. There's still some question as to whether or not it's approachable in such a short timeframe. I tend to oversimplify these kinds of changes, even when, at this point when there is no installed base to worry about.
Paul CantrellMAGA killed this woman.
That’s the short of it. It’s not an exaggeration. It’s just the fact of the matter. And she’s not the only one.
https://www.propublica.org/article/nevaeh-crain-death-texas-abortion-ban-emtala
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms
It took three ER visits and 20 hours before a hospital admitted Nevaeh Crain, 18, as her condition worsened. Doctors insisted on two ultrasounds to confirm “fetal demise.” She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.