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"The Future is Federated: Year 2" - where I take a look back at a year of posts (and some cringy early ones), argue that the #Fediverse is collectivist in nature (as opposed to the individualism of Big Tech platforms) and discuss my plans for the future of this blog series... and what success for the Fediverse looks like to me (spoiler alert: slow organic growth and sustainability)

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/the-future-is-federated-year-2/

#tech #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog

David Clubb

@davidoclubb@toot.wales · 7 days ago

@_elena Well done Elena, lovely post. I can't wait to hear your feedback on #Bonfire, it's something that has piqued my interest and I am looking for case studies for my own use case(s)!

Franz Graf

@hikingdude@mastodon.social · last week

@_elena
Congratulations. I find it so impressive that you manage to spread the idea.
I've always been quite bad in that regard 😕

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social · last week

@hikingdude aw thank you Franz but what idea are you referring to? I think you're really good at communicating ideas on here - please don't be so hard on yourself ❤️ And thank you for inspiring me to take a big leap of faith and installing my own PeerTube

Franz Graf

@hikingdude@mastodon.social · last week

@_elena
Oh I mean the idea of spreading the fedi spirit outside the fediverse.
And "idea" is a small word for making a video, the stock photos etc.

Maybe I should just speak more about it 🤔
Currently I post screenshots of cool fediverse content plus links on my other channels once in a while. But well..

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social · last week

@hikingdude aw thank you Franz but to be honest my conversion and retention rates are TERRIBLE 😭🫠 I can count on one hand the number of people I convinced to join the Fediverse… and only one is still active

Franz Graf

@hikingdude@mastodon.social · last week

@_elena
Ahhh Nooooo 😭

Honestly I'm starting to think that I shouldn't leave Instagram and LinkedIn - but tell people there about the fediverse.

Elena Rossini ⁂

@_elena@mastodon.social · last week

@hikingdude I’m borderline thinking I should start cross posting to Bluesky - and maybe LinkedIn - to draw people’s attention to the Fediverse.

I draw the line at Meta platforms because of diametrically opposed values… but I may re-activate my IG account for a day to share my Fediverse video… ugh

Sylvia

@sylvia@social.lol · last week

@_elena you have come such a long way! It’s amazing how the insight of Fediverse seeped in and you made drastic changes to get there too.

And look what it brought to the world! Your video is incredible!

PS like you, I’m looking forward to Ghost going federated too, really wonder if I will make the move then too as it was my favourite platform since almost its inception.