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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

ah, ecco, mi ero perso l'account di Henna Virkkunen

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

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Morris
@morrisp@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@_elena The “reach” argument doesn’t connect with me… users of other platforms can choose to visit their Following feed for a reverse-chron timeline of the accounts they follow. That’s much easier than opening a different app (Mastodon) to follow a few of those same accounts.

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Souverain 🛡️
@souverain@social.souverain.ovh replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@_elena @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission Hello, is this article available in French? Because it's very informative and interesting!

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@souverain thank you! Yesterday someone volunteered to do it but I haven't heard back since. I'd love to have a French version so that I can go advocate for a Fediverse profile in my neighborhood mairie... and also with whomever wins the Mairie de Paris 🤗

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Souverain 🛡️
@souverain@social.souverain.ovh replied  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@_elena Wow, that would be fantastic! And it's perfect timing because I'm also writing an article in French to help French town halls take a closer look at digital sovereignty through open-source solutions and by sharing examples of people who have successfully implemented these methods in their town halls. I would love to share your article, once it's available in French, by adding a link to it and sharing another experience through your story 🛡️

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@souverain thank you! worst case scenario I will do it this Sunday and post it on Monday... I'll keep you in the loop :)

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Souverain 🛡️
@souverain@social.souverain.ovh replied  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@_elena That's perfect, because my article is scheduled to be published this Monday, the day after the results. We're on the same page! What a wonderful meeting, and congratulations!

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 24 hours ago

@souverain well if he wins, the team of Emmanuel Grégoire is gonna hear from me on Monday 😆🤗

a screenshot of Emmanuel Grégoire's website with the text : "follow me on social media" (in French) and links to Instagram, X, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn and YouTube
a screenshot of Emmanuel Grégoire's website with the text : "follow me on social media" (in French) and links to Instagram, X, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn and YouTube
a screenshot of Emmanuel Grégoire's website with the text : "follow me on social media" (in French) and links to Instagram, X, Facebook, Bluesky, LinkedIn and YouTube
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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

Yesterday I wrote: "Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"

Credit goes to @samvie for suggesting I add the bit "funded by taxpayers' money" 🙏

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Robert
@stegwee@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@_elena @samvie

https://social.overheid.nl/about

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Icanbob
@icanbob@techhub.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@samvie @_elena It gets even better if you believe the MMT folks. In that paradigm European gov spends first then taxes some back. ie. it is the spending which funds not taxes.

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Talia Hussain
@Talia@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena @samvie government is not “funded by taxpayers money”, too bad you’re spreading this pernicious myth with an otherwise good argument

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

I must also thank @macfranc for translating my article in #Italian and publishing it here:

🔗 : https://www.informapirata.it/2026/03/16/architettura-aperta-trasparenza-e-portata-i-tre-motivi-per-cui-le-istituzioni-pubbliche-dovrebbero-abbracciare-il-fediverso-il-post-di-elena-rossini/

Grazie! 💙

#italiano #fediverso

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Oliwier Jaszczyszyn
@oaj@mastodon.com.pl replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena: mind if I make up a Polish translation and publish it on kontrabanda.net?

@macfranc

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@oaj i'd be delighted, thank you @macfranc

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@macfranc@poliversity.it replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena your article is so clear and precise that having an Italian translation is a good thing for all our "evangelists" of the Fediverse 💗

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John Faithfull 🌍🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧡✊🏻✊🏿
@FaithfullJohn@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena @samvie 100%💯 👏

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Nuvalon :vivaldi_red:
@Nuvalon@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena
since i deleted my instagram account i have been missing out on important news from my city, which is a real shame.
you make some really good arguments, so i might share this with someone that works for the city.

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Nuvalon :vivaldi_red:
@Nuvalon@social.vivaldi.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena
since i deleted my instagram account i have been missing out on important news from my city, which is a real shame.
you make some really good arguments, so i might share this with someone that works for the city.

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AquaClaire
@AquaClaire@ecoevo.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena This is such an important issue! All universities, institutions, citizens & responsible communicators should be using a "communications platform that is accessible to all citizens, without the need for an account; an independent network not subject to [monetisation &] censorship due to opaque algorithms or political bias."
Thanks for this clear explanation!

#Fediverse #privacy #PublicGood

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al
@alan@lighthouse.co.im replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission Just watched your video and have forwarded the link to a friend
👏👏

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@alan thank you Alan!

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nicolas ⁂
@nclm@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena Good post 😊 And in addition to RSS, I believe Mastodon is soon adding a subscribe-via-email feature? So that most people can stay up to date with an account without creating one themselves!

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@nclm thank you Nicolas and ooooh I had completely missed this. Sounds EPIC!

P.S.: are you attending JDLL this year? Sadly I can't make it and I'm all kinds of sad about it 😢

P.P.S.: please keep me posted about your thing/announcement in case I miss it 😉

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nicolas ⁂
@nclm@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena Saw it there so it’s still pretty early I’m guessing: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/38163 😅

P.S. Oh no, too bad you’re missing on the conference! ☹️ Are there maybe any other events you’ll be going to? 😊 Pretty sure I’ll attend, yes!

P.P.S. It’s actually public just as of today!! Have a look here for a first glimpse at it: https://code.vinyl-cache.org/vinyl-cache/project-identity/src/branch/main/vinyl-cache-identity.pdf 😁 (By the way, they’re on Mastodon too now! And thank you again for sharing the original call for entries! I’ll post an announcement soon as well)

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ImaCrea
@imacrea@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena Looks amazing, can't wait to read it!! 💫💫

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@imacrea thank you M! It was a real labor of love, it took me a week to write / copy-edit it. HUGE thanks to @samvie for her excellent feedback 🙏

I'd be curious to hear what you think after you read it :)

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ImaCrea
@imacrea@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@_elena And.. Just finished reading it. And what can I say? Thank you for your insights and for sharing them in such an effective and enjoyable tone. Public access to social posts without needing an account is a definitive advantage of the fediverse we need to promote more than ever. And yes, when institutions will start to add the mastodon/pixelfed/... logo along other networks, this will contribute to normalise them and should help attracting more folks here. Hopefully! En avant 💫

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

@imacrea awww thank you so much for the kind words, I'm delighted to hear you enjoyed my post. Someone volunteered to translate it into French... I'll share the FR version with you once I have it

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luca
@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena @europeanspodcast I don't know if everything will go fine, when european countries will start forcing age verification (that is social control) everywhere.

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Michel Patrice
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

I don't get the rss part.

I tried with your adress in the Thunderbird rss reader thing, it doesn't seem to work. I added /rss to your adress, still doesn't work.

Does it work with any fediverse adress, or does the account need to have somehow enabled somekind of rss switch?

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@MichelPatrice oh that's odd because I follow my Fediverse accounts via RSS feeds (to check if they federate and have a reference... but GoToSocial and Ghost). I wonder if my own Mastodon doesn't work (I couldn't do it either) because it starts with an underscore and it could be a bug?

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Michel Patrice
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@_elena

It also works with hashtags. I just tried it.

Look for a hashtag in the search box. Click on the hashtag in the result list. Copy the link in navigation bar and add .rss.

I am now just waiting to see if I will get this hashtag's publications from the whole fediverse (which would be cool) or from Mastodon only.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@MichelPatrice wow i need to try this!

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Ruud
@ruud@mastodon.world replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena @MichelPatrice I think you need to add .rss to it. https://mastodon.world/@ruud.rss

RuudRuud

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Michel Patrice
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@ruud @_elena

It works! You have to add .rss instead of /rss.

It is set up on my Thunderbird. I will see, Elena, if your next posts do appear in my rss feed.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

@MichelPatrice @ruud done ✅

a screenshot from my blog post with an edited sentence that now reads: "If you copy and paste it (and add ".rss" to the address bar - thanks for the tip Ruud)" and links to Ruud's Mastodon profile
a screenshot from my blog post with an edited sentence that now reads: "If you copy and paste it (and add ".rss" to the address bar - thanks for the tip Ruud)" and links to Ruud's Mastodon profile
a screenshot from my blog post with an edited sentence that now reads: "If you copy and paste it (and add ".rss" to the address bar - thanks for the tip Ruud)" and links to Ruud's Mastodon profile
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Michel Patrice
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

When I will get back home tonoght, I will try with some other accounts.

This rss feature would be quite cool.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@MichelPatrice yeah you basically never miss a post by someone...

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Nicolas Fressengeas
@fresseng@universites.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

> I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions

Well, great article, Elena ! I would love to disseminate a French version.

Did you link with @leavex ? They carry roughly the same message though not ruling out Bluesky.

Thank you for your thoughts about Bluesky, by the way! I am struggling to understand eurosky. Any thoughts on it?

#SocialMedia #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS

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Michel Patrice
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

Keep doing what you do.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@MichelPatrice thanks ❤️

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Michel Patrice
@MichelPatrice@jasette.facil.services replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

Also, X/Twitter give you the illusion of being able to take part in a discussion. Unless you have a the blue check mark, no one sees what you write and no one sees the comments you adress an elected official using Twitter.

Imagine a political assembly where only those wearing a paid badge can use the microphone.

Moving public deliberation to Twitter undermines the very foundation of democracy.

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@MichelPatrice indeed.

I was on Twitter for 14 YEARS and I had a blue checkmark (I forget when Twitter gave it to me, but it might have been in 2015-2016?). Checkmark or not, my visibility was terrible unless I posted there every day... and even at that, I might have 30 likes/boosts.

I HATE 99.9% OF ALGORITHMS (except chronological that is). They're just so rubbish when you want to engage in real conversations

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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@_elena

ah, ecco, mi ero perso l'account di Henna Virkkunen

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

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Luca Sironi
@luca@sironi.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@luca

I think I'm gonna ask all the commissioners with a #bluesky account, to *at least* enable #bridgyfed

@quillmatiq
@_elena @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

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