Dear Fedi friends,

[redscare@snabelen.no]

@_elena Fediverse is user-policed, empowering and Musk-free. And we got furries and pinball-machines.

[s1m0n4@ohai.social]

@_elena le moment où on franchit cette porte, on comprend à nouveau la différence entre être utilisateur et utilisé.

Les réseaux sociaux les plus connus aujourd'hui réduisent les personnes à leurs données et à tout ce que l'on peut exploiter de leurs clicks, leur navigation et leurs questions.

Sur le #Fediverse l'humain redevient un être social capable de bâtir une communauté de gens avec les mêmes centres d'intérêts sans, pour autant, être exploité ou piègé par l'addiction aux contenus.

[elmine@deepthought.infullflow.net]

@_elena
@sturmsucht said something to me during FOSDEM that stuck with me. Posting in the fediverse liberated him from all the 'playing to the algorithm’ behaviour. What are the best viewed tags, what is the best day in the week to post, what is the best time of day to release something. All micro decisions that you can let go of in the fediverse. Also, I see many posts days, weeks, even years old being reshared here. Only possible in human to human communication without algorithms interfering.

[snowgaze@masto.pt]

@_elena What I love about fedi and mastodon in particular
1. Cronological order of posts and we are the algorithm
2. Being able to follow pixelfed and peertube from mastodon
3. Real engagement and feel of community
4. Filters that work, no adverts

[musevg@23.social]

@_elena
If you look closer at it, the Fediverse isn't a social network but a network of social networks: Local communities, political communities or commumities based on arts, hobbies, common interests, no matter what. Each of them thrives on its own with its own members and their topics. While at the same time each local user can talk to everybody else, everywhere else about every other topic they may have a common interest in. Across the whole Fediverse.

[showitt@mastodon.social]

@_elena Personally speaking I adore the absence of adverts, I never find myself quick-scrolling (not to be confused with Rick-scrolling!) through endless pages of rubbish content, it's like every post in my feed sparks my interest or curiosity, even during these trying times. And the content of posts here is succinct, informative and not manipulative. I have also had nothing but positive interactions with posters, which is quite restorative. Good luck!

[musevg@23.social]

@_elena
À y regarder de plus près, le Fediverse n'est pas un réseau social, mais un réseau de réseaux sociaux: Des communautés locales, politiques ou axées sur les arts, les loisirs ou des intérêts communs. Chacune d'entre elles vit de manière autonome, avec ses propres membres et ses propres thèmes de discussion. Et au même temps, chaque utilisateur local peut échanger avec n'importe qui, n'importe où, sur n'importe quel autre sujet susceptible de les intéresser tous. Par tout le Fediverse.

[leefromphilly@mstdn.social]

@_elena I migrated to the Fediverse after Musk took over twitter and never looked back. My feed often alerts/educates me about events mainstream media often fails to cover, as well as providing less sensational stories from around the world, which are also sorely lacking on general news sites.

[theowashere@mastodon.social]

@_elena On the big platforms everything is constantly about merica and trump. Like constant usfedaultism. Here it's more european/asian centered. And also people are much kinder here.
And it's genuinely more down to earth.

[sknob@mamot.fr]

@_elena c’est le refuge des gens qui n’acceptent pas l’inévitabilité d’un monde bête et méchant.

[rhadlerin@nrw.social]

@_elena

J'adore que les gens ici sont poli.e.s en général, parfois plus que les gens qui je rencontre au quotidienne et aussi que souvent ils/elles posent des questions concernant les sources des informations ou se souviennent de mettre des textes décrivant des images.

Ouff, and I don't mind if anyone points out grammatical errors in the above. No need to be too polite in this case

[nmba@mstdn.ca]

@_elena
The fediverse is as close to the social magic of Twitter before it was destroyed. The absence of an algorithm coded for deviancy makes the fediverse vastly superior. In direct contrast to corporate social media, the Fediverse is no threat to democracy or truth, and it actively resists hate instead of prosthelizing strife.

[aoeberlin@social.vivaldi.net]

@_elena I’m the algorithm,
you’re the algorithm,
we are the algorithm.

That makes the Fediverse human.

[mediocreman@mastodon.social]

@_elena Good Luck

[photovince@mastodon.social]

@_elena I love that every instance can have their own acceptable use policy, local as well as for federation.

[graffin@tooter.social]

@_elena
Bonjour et merci.

Les personnes qui écrivent et postent sur le Fediverse, elles ne le font pas pour compter les vues, mais parce qu'elles ont quelque chose à apporter. Du coup, c'est facile de trouver du contenu intéressant, vérifié ou vérifiable et de conserver ce contenu bien visible dans son fil.

[kura@hai.z0ne.social]

@_elena@mastodon.social I personally prefer Fediverse over other systems, because it feels like a nice tight knit community where you can be as dumb or weird as you like. Also (not applying to me) it is way more open to LGBTQ people.
[That does not mean there are non bad players. It is open and anyone can join. But those usually get moderated out pretty quick.]
You can easily create your own instance, using various servers and moderate things according to your own tastes. You arent bound by how $company decides to moderate.

[misterscience@mastodon.world]

@_elena

No ads. No algorithm. Just a chronological feed of ideas, links and inspiration from people I've chosen.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@_elena

the biggest qualification for the fediverse is that amongst major social media platforms/ protocols, there is no plutocrat ownership and control

so while there is still conflict- there's always conflict, it's genuine. rather than manipulated and stilted by agendas that serve bigotry for political ends

because the largest problem in the world today is how the media, social media and traditional media, now serves a plutocrat-bigot political axis

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@_elena

La principale caractéristique du Fediverse réside dans le fait que, parmi les grandes plateformes et protocoles de réseaux sociaux, il n'est soumis ni à la propriété ni au contrôle de ploutocrates.

Ainsi, bien que des conflits subsistent — car il y a toujours des conflits —, ceux-ci sont authentiques ; ils ne sont ni manipulés ni artificiellement orientés par des agendas visant à instrumentaliser l'intolérance à des fins politiques.

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