Dear Fedi friends,

[veza85ue@eupolicy.social]

@_elena Je suis européenne, et je n'ai aucune intention de créer du contenu ni de contribuer à remplir les poches d'oligarques étrangers qui veulent détruire notre Union. Je suis très reconnaissante envers toutes les personnes qui consacrent souvent du temps, des efforts et de l'argent à titre bénévole pour coder et modérer un réseau social européen. Cela ne devrait pas être un fardeau qu'elles portent seules.

[pablovesky@mastodon.com.pl]

@_elena Fediverse is a place where the only one barier is you. Nobody tells you how to live here, and what to watch. Choice is in your hand

[wurzelmann@mastodon.wurzelmann.at]

@_elena the Fediverse is special, because it feels like "our" network, "our" social media. I run my own Mastodon instance and I love it. There are no algorithms, it is just a whole different experience to Twitter (where I was active for many years before) and other platforms.

As an advocate for open source software and operating systems, Mastodon/the Fediverse is the logical next step for communication and socialisation for me.

[joncounts@mastodon.nz]

@_elena For me the Fediverse is hope. When everything else seems to be crumbling, I see in the Fediverse hope that the internet can be a good place. Without all the ads and algorithms and influencers, people can be good to one another, and we can work together to build a better future. We all need more hope right now.

[print@theforkiverse.com]

@_elena

Supermoosie (@SuperMoosie@mastodon.au)

@stefanie@social.anoxinon.de @haubles@hachyderm.io I think it is also more than one campground, bunch of campground. Sometimes you will hear another campground having a party and wander over and join in. Other times it just makes you happy, they are being happy over there and you continue to cook your meal on the fire, while the guy next to you is debugging the USB C connector he is installing in his Commadore 64 disk drive, except a cat keeps sitting on it. Later you go down for a swim in the lake and on way you meet some guys who want to point out a cool looking rock and some moss they found. At the lake there is a guy expert in eel history and a guy who has been sailing a single handled boat around the world, but wants to go check out the moss here. And while politics invertently finds its way into campground form the outside world, mostly the campground is a place to escape from such pressure Occassionly someone will turn up with a megaphone and amplified music, broadcasting. self promoting, "look at me, listrn to my podcast about me" trying to get attention, but not participating, but they largely get igored, or sent to a campground as far as way as possible.

Mastodon Australia (mastodon.au)

[x_cli@infosec.exchange]

@_elena
J'aime le fédiverse pour sa nature intrinsèquement anticapitaliste : pas de société centrale, pas de serveurs centraux, pas de logiciels centraux, des communautés souvent hébergées par des volontaires ou des associations, pas d'algorithmes de recommandation visant à maximiser le temps d'usage, la possibilité de migrer librement d'un serveur à un autre, des politiques de modération variées. Juste des gens et des relations sociales. Et finalement, c'est ce qu'on veut d'un réseau *social*.

[macfranc@poliversity.it]

@_elena Nell'attuale modello sociale, gli spazi comuni, gli spazi liberi, vanno riducendosi sempre di più, a tutto vantaggio dei luoghi "a pedaggio", luoghi in cui per stare seduto, per fare sport, per giocare, devi pagare in denaro o in natura. Così come gli architetti urbanisti cercano di trovare soluzioni per fare in modo che la cittadinanza riconquisti il diritto agli spazi liberi e gratuiti, allo stesso modo gli "urbanisti digitali" del Fediverso hanno realizzato un'infrastruttura che consenta ai cittadini digitali di riappropriarsi dei propri spazi senza svendere le proprie relazioni e i propri pensieri alla profilazione dei data broker e alla manipolazione algoritmica a fini di lucro; questo è il Fediverso: uno spazio comune, pubblico e intimo allo stesso tempo.

en français

Dans le modèle social actuel, les espaces communs, les espaces de liberté, se raréfient au profit des espaces payants – des lieux où il faut payer, en espèces ou en nature, pour s'asseoir, faire du sport ou se divertir. De même que les urbanistes cherchent des solutions pour garantir aux citoyens le droit à des espaces libres et ouverts, les « urbanistes numériques » du Fediverse ont créé une infrastructure permettant aux citoyens numériques de se réapproprier leurs espaces sans que leurs relations et leurs pensées ne soient instrumentalisées par des courtiers en données pour le profilage et la manipulation algorithmique à des fins lucratives. C'est le Fediverse : un espace commun, à la fois public et intime.

[blf_tpe@phpc.social]

@_elena pour moi le Fediverse c’est:
- une expérience bien supérieure aux autres reseaux: pas de pub, flux chronologique, accès facile aux news ; un réseau plus petit mais convivial avec des échanges intéressants; un concept honnête et clair qui me conduit à participer aux frais de serveurs de la communauté php; pas de défauts majeurs. J’espère juste que tu vas faire du bon boulot et que plein de gens vont arriver ici

[niall@mastodon.nz]

@_elena il fait rien de merdé ici.
That's pig-french and not very deep. But at least you have one to reject now!

[rapsneezy@mastodon.social]

@_elena

mastodon has a massive problem with unqualified admins/mods censoring content on which they have next to zero expertise

such as genocide and Israel's 8 decades of war crimes

because of its federated nature, a collection of smaller units, each admin has fewer eyes on their decisions, and collectively the fediverse ends up being a racist zionist bubble

and the privileged European conference-goers are wilfully deaf and blind to this issue

have you not noticed the poor diversity here?

[jberg@toot.community]

@_elena le Fediverse est généralement juste plus sein que son alternative. Tu n’as pas d’algorithmes qui cherchent à te manipuler pour t’exploiter.

[thehole@dasforum.org]

@wurzelmann @_elena what Wurzelmann said

[reverend@social.undeadnetwork.de]

@rapsneezy @_elena

The aim of the federation is to create as many small servers as possible in order to reduce censorship and European arrogance as much as possible. What is known today as the ‘Fediverse’ is merely a starting point, a long way from what it ought to be. Projects such as Nostr or Delta Chat no longer allow for centralisation – this will not eradicate stupidity and arrogance, but it will take away their power.

[urbanfoxe@mastodon.ie]

@_elena it simply feels safer. I'm in the US which is now a surveillance state, my data is in Europe. I feel like if immigration were ever to ask to see my socials, Mastodon is not something they'd think to check.

[jrossstocholm@friendica.dk]

@_elena To me, it is the absence of algorithms. The resulting calmness is what truly differentiates fediverse from the big platforms.

Algorithms favor "conflict" over "dialogue" and since everything is displayed in chronological order, there is no incentive - as a content creator - to "feed the algorithm" to have your content prioritised.

I have yet to see a "Follow link in comments" post in fediverse - because there is just no need for it.

[delawen@floss.social]

@_elena

I don't feel like my human rights are constantly being questioned. Moderation is much better handled, specially in smaller instances.

I only see the things I am interested in, there are no narratives being pushed.

I can either have a nice walk around cute things or enter debates. I can choose. No algorithm is trying to force-fed me anything.

I can follow people or topics. I discover new things everyday.

There's no faking being happy. Everyone is human with good and bad days.

[jmrubillon@mastodon.ie]

@_elena le Fediverse est une communauté diverse, sans algorithme de "découverte", sans commercialisation de nos conversations. C'est un peu comme Usenet était au début.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@_elena after decades of being disappointed by Facebook, Twitter, and Google+'s approach to developers, I'm excited about finally being in control of what I create and share.

[rysiek@mstdn.social]

@_elena here you go:

Best social network money can't buy.

And:

Fediverse proves that if nobody is tipping the scales to artificially boost "engagement", toxic people end up being blocked. Mainstream media toxicity is not inevitable, it's a business decision, a choice. And Fediverse chooses not to have any of it.

[folfdk@helvede.net]

@_elena
This is mostly Mastodon experience but:

I feel like I'm in control.
The system is made for me and I can sort and select what I see through filters and lists.