Notices by Elena Rossini ⁂ (_elena@mastodon.social)

@aral Aral! Your talk is absolutely brilliant (content and delivery-wise). Wow wow wow! I'll make sure to share it widely. And thank you for the encouragement

My profile's bio may need to be tweaked soon. I'm thinking of coming out of filmmaking retirement to make promotional videos for the #Fediverse.

I just rewatched a video I made years ago to criticize Big Tech and oh my goodness it's so tame when you consider the horrors we are facing today: https://vimeo.com/292544650

Images from Monday's spectacle (feat. Big Tech oligarchs) would be PERFECT as promotional material for the Fediverse.

Oh my, I'm so tempted to make a video. Talk me out of it 🙃

@aral I thought nothing could shock me anymore, but this does. and breaks my heart

Good morning Fedi friends!

All eyes are on #Pixelfed this week, as #Meta censored all mentions and links to it.

Last year I wrote about the superb interoperability between Pixelfed and #Mastodon - it was one of my first articles for #TheFutureIsFederated, which inspired me to try out more #Fediverse projects.

If you have friends who are curious about the Fediverse and @pixelfed you could share this: https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

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TIL that on #Meta platforms now one can write terrible, offensive slurs against LGBTQIA+ folks and immigrants… with zero repercussions. But the second one mentions a #Fediverse project like #Pixelfed, the post is automatically removed.

Meta “moderation” policies in 2025: racism, xenophobia, transphobia, homophobia and sexism are allowed; mention of competition is strictly forbidden.

Source: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113813541987227835

#BigTech #dystopia #QuitMeta

@Mastodon I just donated!

I hope this new role will help make Mastodon a safer, more welcoming space for POC

✨ Let's normalize resistance to #BigTech and #SurveillanceCapitalism ✨

The links page of my website:

"I don’t use TikTok or platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined in this blog post (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism).

In case you couldn’t find me anymore, I recently deactivated my Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn profiles and I deleted my 3 Twitter accounts (since their change of ownership).

https://elenarossini.com/links/

“if we give our data to companies, the wealthy will rule.

If we give our data to governments, we will end up with some form of authoritarianism.

Only if the people keep their data will society be free.

#Privacy matters because it gives power to the people.”

— Carissa Véliz, “Privacy is Power”

A PSA for people active on #Bluesky: your block list is PUBLIC information.

A website that tracks Bluesky stats – which I am not naming here on purpose – makes this job super easy: you can enter *any* username and see the accounts a user has blocked.

(Yes I tested it with my account and was horrified)

I'm alarmed by this because the information could be weaponized for abuse.

Muting may be the safer choice then?

Please read up about Bluesky here: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ (by @cwebber)

Can we please retire the myth that there is “no engagement” in the Fediverse?

Exhibit A: this badge from #Ivory showing the activity in my account over the past 22 hours — 344 notifications (likes, boosts, follows, replies).

I was on Twitter 1.0 for 14 years, had 4x as many followers on my personal account and never ever had these many interactions. Why?

The damn Big Tech algorithms penalizing my posts whenever I shared links.

I LOVE the Fediverse and its chronological feeds ❤️

Day 2 of my resistance against tech overlords.

Yesterday I set up my #RaspberryPi and started tinkering with it.

Today I’m at the library getting books on #Linux, Raspberry Pi, tech history and theory.

#Education and tech independence are a powerful mix. Resist ✊

#FOSS #RebelAlliance #resistance

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.6 👩🚀

The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: #Mastodon ↔️ #Pixelfed )

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-1-mastodon-pixelfed-2/

with shout-outs to @phanpy @tapbots @ivory @Tusky @dansup

✨ and special thanks to @evan @cwebber for your work on #ActivityPub, the magic protocol that is making all this possible ✨

#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #RebelAlliance

My first post on @pixelfed — it’s awesome to see it pop up in my #Mastodon feed, it feels like magic.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub
✨🌳✨

🔗 https://pixelfed.social/p/elenarossini/716551270199376476

#thefutureisfederated #tech

I've just started transferring about 25 GB of #Signal data between my two iPhones (old → new)... which means they need to stay near each other, with Signal open, for the *entirety* of the transfer. I can't use either of them.

So I'll have a Google Pixel 4a as my main phone today. And! Since I can't use #Ivory or #IceCubes, I've just downloaded #Tusky. About to take it for a spin. Curious to see what the #Mastodon experience is like on #Android

If you have any recommendations, I'm all ears 🤗

The visibility of female film directors in #Google search results has been getting worse. So much worse.

I searched for "film directors" (in incognito mode, with a VPN set to the US) and the 42 directors whose photos appear in Google cards are ALL men.

In 2022 I co-directed a short film with Mimi Anagli about this issue. You can watch it here: https://elenarossini.com/portfolio/the-power-of-visibility/ Please share!

#representationmatters #diversity #DEI #gender #discrimination #womeninfilm #filmmaking #socialjustice