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

@Gargron it's gorgeous 😍

@Mastodon 🥰

@pfefferle @Mastodon @staff yesssss 🙌🙌🙌

My #Plushtodon family just got bigger 🧡💛💙

Thank you @Mastodon @staff for creating such adorable, super soft plushies

@pfefferle awww it looks adorable! 😍 I can’t wait to receive mine

🚨 attention #Plushtodon fans 🚨

#Mastodon's Mini Plushies have just been released: https://shop.joinmastodon.org/products/mastodon-stuffed-toy-mini

They come in two colors: Activity Peach and Interoperability Blue - and are absolutely adorable.

I'm only posting this message AFTER purchasing both because these items usually sell out real fast.

My little one tends to claim all my stuff, so it's a good thing they are two. I will negotiate to keep one for me.

Upside is that this official Mastodon merch helps support the team. So go!

@futurebird I have a step stool in the kitchen and still I struggle to see what’s on top shelves. My kitchen has been designed for giants… And I’m 5"7 !

Good morning Fedi friends!

News headlines this week make me feel like we're stuck in a permanent April Fool's Day.

Tuesday 11/11: "Apple Just Announced a $230 Knitted Sock for Your iPhone" https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/11/apple-150-knitted-sock-for-your-iphone/

Thursday (today): "Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive" https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/

We live in the strangest timeline.

Time to go offline and do some sound mix work.

Wishing you all a great day 🌞

@juandesant @GroupNebula563 excellent point

@john I just wanted to thank you and Ghost's team for v6's new features – they're AMAZING!!! And it's so cool to finally federate 🥳

In my new article "The rebellion will be federated – 2025 edition" I discuss the key role of the Fediverse in this political and cultural climate... and argue that digital sovereignty and the ability to self-host are now more important than ever:

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-rebellion-will-be-federated-2025-edition/

Plus I had a chance to look back at my Fediverse advocacy in 2025 😊

Psst: my Ghost blog is now federated thanks to @jannis and his amazing @hey 🥳 🪄 📄

#resist #resistance #TheFutureIsFederated #tech #BigTech #FOSS #blog

Earlier this week #TeenVogue was folded into #Vogue US and its parent company #CondeNast fired 6 reporters who fearlessly covered politics, speaking truth to power ("coincidentally" they were mostly BIPOC women or trans). Talk about capitulating to the current political climate.

I know it's not much, but this morning I canceled my WIRED & New Yorker subscriptions (also owned by Condé Nast)... and made sure to let them know my reason. Plus I added a note about their awful AI narrations #noAI

@KimSJ @aral done! thank you for the suggestion

@aral thank you for letting me know this Aral. I will take down my post... your comments have been really eye-opening

🚨 attention #designers of the Fediverse 🎨

#VarnishCache is rebranding to #VinylCache and is running a logo and mascot contest throughout November.

Vinyl Cache will award monetary prizes to the 3 best designs:

🔗 : https://vinyl-cache.org/#vinyl-cache-logo-and-mascot-contest

If you follow my #selfhosting adventures (@elena) you know how much I LOOOVE Varnish Cache (I set it up for my Ghost site and I've never experienced the Mastodon stampede anymore, since activating it). It's really the best!

#illustration #design #branding

Hello Fedi friends!

ICYMI, Walid of @projetslibres_podcast interviewed me for his amazing podcast.

You can listen to the episode here (and if you don't speak French, an English transcript is available): https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/s4e4-fediverse-the-future-will-be-federated/

with shout-outs to @andypiper @pfefferle @yunohost @Ivory @MichelPatrice and @elk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/115422407120803629

Good morning Fedi friends!

The results of yesterday's poll are in: 53% of you voted for #NextCloud – as in: the software I should showcase in my #YunoHost / #selfhosting for newbies step-by-step guide.

I've been self-hosting NextCloud for 4 months now and it has become absolutely essential to me, replacing Dropbox, Google Docs, Google Drive and WeTransfer. But it has so many more capabilities too!

I'm excited to do a show & tell.

Yay for #DigitalSovereignty and independence from #BigTech ✊

Unpopular opinion: the silver lining in server outages is that they pull the curtain & reveal some hard truths about who is really behind some services we use... especially stuff we think are alternatives to Big Tech (spoiler: maybe they aren't).

Case in point: last year's #Microsoft outage took out #DuckDuckGo (https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-chatgpt).

Today's Amazon's AWS outage took out #Signal in some areas: https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236

Oh my, is this time to convince my family & friends to move to Matrix? 🥲

Me in October 2024: "Hmmm #Linux seems interesting, maybe I'll start learning it on a Raspberry Pi... and if I'm lucky enough in 5-10 years I can host my own Fediverse instance."

Me in October 2025: "No we can't fly back to Paris on October 25th. IT'S LINUX DAY in Italy! I need to attend events." I'm also self-hosting my own GoToSocial, Pixelfed, PeerTube and NextCloud (thanks to #YunoHost). And no I'm not bragging, I'm sharing my new addiction. Send help please 😅🤣

Good morning Fedi friends!

When I opened up my podcast app this morning I realized that I've been recently featured on 3 out of the 12 podcasts I routinely listen to. It's a bit surreal to be honest.

I'm super thankful to @aprilorg @projetslibres & @firesidefedi for giving me an opportunity to share my story of tech empowerment made possible by the Fediverse & FOSS ❤️

🎧 Libre à Vous (FR): https://www.libreavous.org/256-parcours-libriste-avec-elena-rossini-la-violence-ce-n-est-pas-binaire

🎧 Projets Libres (FR): coming soon

🎧 Fireside Fedi (EN): https://fedi.video/w/21bC2eX9wvznPCcda5wPbA