@SpecialKarl I thought they were made out of cloth irons at first :D but it's rims?? Looks super cool

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 regret to inform you that we have reached the "you can get your ass hacked by an #ai" stage of 2025 thanks to #mcp
Prompt injection takes on a whole new meaning

https://github.com/ConAcademy/buttplug-mcp

List of vulnerabilities
https://vulnerablemcp.info/

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

@wendynather Aren't colleagues necessarily someone you work with? 😅

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

Widely covered MIT paper saying AI boosts worker productivity is, in fact, complete bullshit it turns out.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-says-it-no-longer-stands-behind-students-ai-research-paper-11434092?st=sF3Wvo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

@TCatInReality @codinghorror My exact sentiment, it's SO easy to say this now, and set such a far deadline, when by 20 years all our systems will be likely very different. There's nobody that will hold him accountable to it, and he knows it. He just wants to be the "good guy" of the billionaires but all his past charity work has always looped back to just more money for him, just like all other billionaires. It's pure "Don't eat me first" energy and I don't trust a word of it.

What a week, uh?
Captain, it's grmffnesddy

#whataweek #grmffnesddy

Reading books is apparently resistance.

Go to the library.

100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

omfg the font used in this famous anti-piracy campaign used a pirated commercial font.

source: https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f

@catsalad this meme also works for your pronouns! 😄

🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩‍🚀

"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"

https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/

mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash @ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli

I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨

#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #resistance #SaveSocial

@soatok

People keep saying “we’re in a post-truth era.”

No.

We’re in a post-consequence era.

But it doesn't have to stay that way.

Don't. Make. Me.

Imagine what Elon could have done for trans rights with all his money and power, if he loved his daughter.

Finally switched from #plex to @jellyfin and I feel so dumb cause it was so easy and quick! Brought back the nostalgia of customizing my old XBMC setup 💠 :p

Still can't believe I could have saved myself so many rants about enshittification over the years 🥲 But I suppose every of these rants and all the others about every other app are part of my anticapitalist villain origin story so I probably needed them to be where I'm at