Post B55C7CSfFAXLJvqODg by _elena@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #B55C7CSfFAXLJvqODg by _elena@mastodon.social
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       Dear Fedi friends,Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.Merci beaucoup ❤️
       
 (DIR) Post #B55C7Cq3qBFgUUn4gi by _elena@mastodon.social
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       ... and now I need to go pick up my child from daycare. I'll be mostly offline for the rest of the day but I look forward to reading your testimonies tonight, when she's asleep 😊
       
 (DIR) Post #B55CNbR49qXfPTuyQK by Jain@blob.cat
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       @_elena i love how everyone mistake the independence from large corporations as if they had control over their own data blasting their posts into thousand servers not under their control
       
 (DIR) Post #B55Chofaf9feFNLlWS by kura@hai.z0ne.social
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       @_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.
       
 (DIR) Post #B57d4ZZFxrcrC2oqBs by drq@mastodon.ml
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       @_elena  - Part of what makes the Fediverse special is how UNspecial it is. It's not flashy, it doesn't go out of its way trying to "wow" you. It's pretty simple and boring technology. A mechanism. A standard. It just gets the job done. - It's permissionless. Which is basically another word for "free as in speech". There's no big rich corporation behind it. There's no dictator at the top. You don't need to ask anybody. Your account is your own. Your server is your own. Your Fediverse software, in case you write it, is your own. The consequences are also your own. It does mean that the entry threshold is steeper, because nobody is coming to baby you into signing on and building your own social graph, but that's the deal. - This, however means, that if you're invested into finding friends on your own, it very quickly starts feeling like a true home. I've found friends here. I've found a family here. My ragtag tribe of adorable goofballs. No other social network can provide that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B58LKorZGDGZFOwQ08 by linear@nya.social
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       @_elena@mastodon.social every 6 months, journalists and corpos check us out, get angry when they fail to hack our engagement here and can't figure out how to advertise/monetize, and proceed to write articles about how "mastodon is dead" (nevermind that mastodon isn't the only game in town).and yet we continue on, happily talking with people we actually care about, of things we actually care about.their "networking" is no match for actual community building, and after a few years, it starts to just become funny watching them fail to understand this over and over
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cscH8mVIzV6Lip7I by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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       @_elena I love the Fediverse because it restored focus on People having Conversations again.  The so-called "Social Media" sites started out that way, connecting you with friends you lost touch with, and gathering your extended family, but these days they treat you like an Audience instead.The people who seem to have the greatest frustration using Fediverse systems like Mastodon are the ones looking for  "reach" or "follower count" or other metrics of how big their Audience is.  This is Big Tech thinking, and I recommend they instead look for people to talk *with* instead of *at*.  Because that's where we really shine, and I love this space for it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cscHkiEHKezzT7Eu by neale@teh.entar.net
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       @spacehobo @_elena You may have just convinced me to start going hard on my project to make my own #uilleannpipes. It's so niche, I figure nobody much cares. But now you've got me thinking "so niche" is the whole point.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cscI3V6QMRwGG7Wa by neale@teh.entar.net
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       @spacehobo @_elena kinda feels like usenet if I'm being honest. alt.music.uilleannpipes
       
 (DIR) Post #B5cscIHgFhhgeEtRcu by larsbrinkhoff@mastodon.sdf.org
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       @neale @spacehobo @_elena alt.sys.pdp10 is still active... er, somewhat.