Dear Fedi friends,

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@stragu merci Polly !

[_elena@mastodon.social]

... 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

[tanavit@toot.aquilenet.fr]

@_elena

Un bel exemple de la convivialité de Mastodon n'est-il pas la belle aventure de Bubulle-Bis ?

Je suis de longue date un zélateur des logiciels libres.
De plus, même si ce n'est pas un critère premier, la confidentialité de ces réseaux est importante.

Ps : mes pouets ont une courte durée de vie

3/3

[mariafarrell@mastodon.social]

@_elena oh very very good luck to you! you will ace this. I've seen you present and you're so clear and confident. they are lucky to have you.

(in my terrible French my testimony is that aux autres résaux sociaux je lis, je vois des choses, de temps en temps j'écrit. c'est bon mais ce ne change rien dans ma vie. chez mastodon j'APPRENDS. quand je le ferme j'ai appris des novelles choses et vu des liens nouveaux entre les choses que j'ai su.)

[jan@social.dytrych.cloud]

@_elena @shanselman once written "Own your words!", so I'm owning mine, have my space for social contacts not governed by people doing it for profit at all. That feels great! We have a very nice #Czech community around and that's all I need for now.

[lioh@social.anoxinon.de]

@_elena I have grown up on the countryside and always felt very isolated. I thought there is nobody else like me out there. Until I have found the Fediverse where I instantly felt home. Finally, I was able to share my interests and felt understood. The Fediverse has helped me to become the person, I am today.

[gorfram@beige.party]

@_elena
I like that, on Fedi, I generally don’t have to worry about being attacked; and I can freely use words like “albeit,” or “clusterfuck.”

[robeeshepherd@mastodon.art]

@_elena Being in the Fediverse has really brought the “social” part of social media back for me. I’m not being gamed for engagement by a corporate company that wants to feed off my emotions, I can just interact with people online again, like how it used to be… like how it should be!

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@mariafarrell thank you Maria, it means so much coming from you ️ and I completely agree with you re: learning here.

I once replied to someone (toot gone bc of autodelete sadly): "14 years on Big Tech platforms and I learned nothing. 4 years on the Fediverse and I feel like MacGyver"

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@jan thank you for the beautiful words Jan @shanselman

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Lioh

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@RobeeShepherd aw I LOVE this

[robeeshepherd@mastodon.art]

@_elena Good luck with your presentation, you are going to smash it!!

[mariafarrell@mastodon.social]

@_elena ha! that is a fantastic quote! you go girl. x

[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

https://mastodon.au/@SuperMoosie/116365551527059474

[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*.