Dear Fedi friends,
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…
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 💌
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with itElena Rossini
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Such an amazing work!
(We were refreshing frantically the browser as if would change anything :p)
Now, it's online! Let's spread the word!
Thank you so much, @elena @samaaberg and @patel.riyen !
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Very good video. I like that, unless the marketing of Mastodon™, it encompasses all of the fediverse.
A small nit: fediverse software *has* algorithms, of course. You should use a more correct statement such as "you see what you decided to see".
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •A tip for anyone watching the video, after you've finished watching leave the tab open. Your open tab will contribute to the bandwidth of the video thanks to PeerTube's peer-to-peer system, and relieve strain on Rossini's server.
You can see the other people you're helping at the bottom of the video in the "peers" number, and if you hover over the peers number you'll see how much data you've uploaded to other people. This is what relieves stress on Rossini's server.
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •What an amazing video, I'm going to add it to the homepage of fediverse.info
Thank you so much ❤️
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in reply to dansup • • •Could you embed the PeerTube version of the video instead of the YouTube please? Or is there a specific reason not to?
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It feels really weird that a website promoting the Fediverse is not using PeerTube for video.
#EatYourOwnDogfood #YouTube #PeerTube
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
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in reply to Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂ • • •Many thanks for this brilliant video! ✨
I’d love to take part and translate the subtitles into Hebrew¹. What’s the procedure for doing that?
I see you have flags for different languages on news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…. This has several downsides, and specifically I’d appreciate it if you don’t put Israel’s flag on the line for Hebrew, as I don’t support genocide, apartheid and occupation.
¹ I already translated @FediverseSymbol’s page:
symbol.fediverse.info/he
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📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
Elena Rossini