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

Fantastic presentation by @andypiper at #BerlinFediDay “rebellions are built on hope” — YESSSSS 🙌🔥

@cwebber Sorry to miss you in Berlin (I was really looking forward to seeing you IRL) but I look forward to watching your presentation this afternoon Christine.

And I hope we’ll have an opportunity to say hi IRL (maybe FOSDEM 2026?)

Have a great day and THANK YOU for all you do 💖

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/114845119132934981

Routine PSA: #Mozilla will shut down #Pocket on October 8th and delete all user data. You have a week left to request an export of your archive.

(My first request returned a corrupt file, so I'm going for a second round now. Fingers crossed).

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

"My Fediverse Starter Guide" for newbies, based on my video and articles about Fediverse software and culture.

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-fediverse-starter-guide/

mentioning @Mastodon @news @gotosocial @pfefferle @pixelfed @peertube

If you share it with friends/family, let me know how it goes and if this guide is helpful to them 🙏

#digitalliteracy #BigTech #tech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog

@pfefferle I look forward to seeing you there Matthias!

@evan asking for a friend (so she can make travel plans / childcare arrangements well in advance): will FOSDEM 2026 will have another Social Web track? This year's edition was absolutely EPIC... 😊

@stereo aw thanks for the info Ralf! 🙏@evan

Working on a new signature to append to all my #blog posts:

written by a human ❤️

This is very DIY, I wrote it on a piece of paper, took a pic with my phone and sent it to my computer. You can still see the paper texture, but I think it adds a nice touch to it...

#noAI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115224321548138026

Good morning Fedi friends.

Quote posts are all over my timeline today - wow!

Thank you @Gargron and the whole @Mastodon team for implementing them in a considerate way, protecting original posters from potential misuse and pile-ons.

Are we calling them quoots? Or something else? (I love a good portmanteau)

Wishing everyone a lovely day! ✨

Dear Fedi friends,

I would love to start a #GratefulForYou hashtag, doing shout-outs to Fediverse people that one finds inspiring, enlightening, or just plain cool.

The online world can be a dark, overwhelming place and I just wanted to encourage others to shine a light on people who make a positive difference... to say, "I see you, I hear you and I value you."

Today my #GratefulForYou goes out to @sylvia, whose creativity & positivity always uplift & inspire me ❤️

Who are you grateful for?

@jwildeboer nooooooooooooo this is such bad news 😱😭😭😭😭😭

Today I learned (by accident!) that @Vivaldi browser has a built-in pomodoro + break timer. My reaction: 😍

I was already smitten with Vivaldi, but this takes my love for it to a whole new level.

For aficionadas of the pomodoro technique (like me! I've been using it for a decade now) it's super convenient to have a visual display at the bottom of a browser window about how much time is left for a given pomodoro. Absolutely brilliant.

end of PSA - hope you're all having a lovely day ✨ 🌈 ❤️

Dear Fedi friends,

Happy Thursday from rainy northern Italy 🌧️

In case you missed it: I've spent the past two weeks doing all kinds of #selfhosting explorations, as I strive to learn #Docker to move my Ghost site there (it's recommended for Ghost v6 and going forward).

Yesterday I shared a blog post about the peaches (highs) and pits (lows) in #MySoCalledSudoLife adventures.

I'm hoping my mistakes can be useful for fellow newbies 😅

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-so-called-sudo-life/my-so-called-sudo-life-month-8-peaches-pits/

#blog #VPS #newbie

@aral how about Microsoft and Facebook (and X) walked the talk and replaced their CEOs with AI? Imagine the savings! And the efficiency!

/s but also: would be amazing

@aral THE DREAM - maybe after they paid reparations for all the damage they’ve done?

@evan interestingly, both fediverse.club and fedi.club were registered on the same day 🤔 but records are private, as you must have seen

A moment of gratitude for the amazing @vkc - whose video tutorials are simply illuminating.

As a clueless self-hosting newbie I often ask for advice here on the Fediverse… and get really helpful feedback but most of the time it reads like a foreign language to me (a non-dev).

Well, Veronica has perfected a way to talk to newbies.

Thank you Veronica for making me understand OpenSSH - at long last 🙌

I highly recommend her #PeerTube channel: https://tinkerbetter.tube/c/veronicaexplains/videos ❤️✨

@MediaActivist what a great post Jay! Thank you for the mention and the kind words 🙏

My current approach re: Bluesky is: I acknowledge its potential and impact but I still do not trust them… so if I ever publish anything there, it would be as part of a POSSE strategy… or I would fully accept that it would be ephemeral / no hard feelings if I have to abandon the account and its followers one day.

I think of Bluesky as the 🦂 in the fable of the Frog and the Scorpion

A recent toot from @quillmatic made me take a hard look in the mirror. I am totally guilty of "yelling in my bubble": https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/114892774754858738

I quit all Big Tech platforms cold turkey in November 2024, post-election. I was using them once every blue moon (looking at you, Instagram, Threads and LinkedIn) but I basically deactivated or deleted all my accounts, without any announcements.

Wondering if I should start cross-posting to LinkedIn & Bluesky... to get people curious about the Fediverse 🤔

ICYMI: earlier this week I wrote a blog post disclosing my tech stack… arguing that anyone who writes about technology should be transparent about the tools they use.

TL;DR: I’m doing well on the software front. Hardware? Not so much: 🍎

🔗: https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Well, a few hours after publishing it, Tim Cook’s latest capitulation to the Authoritarian-in-Chief made front page news everywhere.

I can safely say my next laptop will be from @frameworkcomputer

#resist