@_elena Even though neither of us was born in that city, let me tell you with a single, sharp, clear, unmistakable word they use in the capital of our birthplace: DAJE!!!!

Thank you for your encouraging responses 😊

For context: I spent a decade making films for progressive causes (and freelance corporate gigs on the side, for clients that aligned with my values).

I stopped in 2022 because of: lack of time / schedule incompatible with caring for an infant.

When I was making films professionally I could work for 10+ hours, uninterrupted. Not anymore.

At most I have 4-5 hours now. And it's so hard to get in a state of flow and get everything done (cont')

@_elena Great post as usual :)
Do you think friendica can "replace" facebook groups in a similar fashion?
That reminds me that I need to setup a matrix instance as well!

@_elena @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy happy new year!

I can't wait to hear more in 2025 as you continue your #fediverse adventures:)

I just went back and read your post on #Sharkey and have to say I'm considering setting up my own instance... That or #gotosocial but maybe I'll wait to read your upcoming conclusions.

I'm also using #yunohost and totally understand your gushing enthusiasm for being able to selfhost, what a time to be alive:). Thanks devs!!

@_elena

Hey @dansup did you see this? Meta is blocking people from linking to you! You've hit the big time! 👏

EDIT: Oops, sorry, I didn't realise it was a link to your own post! I'm on Tangerine UI which makes it a bit less obvious and also I am an idiot 😅

@_elena I guess calling Trump a fascist will be removed as well.

@_elena A repost or donation could give us the courage to keep going. 🙏

@_elena thanks for sharing your journey, it's very inspiring and gratifying seeing someone get started with enthusiasm.

@_elena ah interesting, I always wondered what those instances with reactions are!
I'll have to check out sharkey and misskey and see if I can set up my own server and maybe migrate my mastodon to it and shut down my mastodon. Since it's only me here that shouldn't be a problem. Maybe I have to use an temporary home for my account while I do that though.
The "Tweetdeck" style UI is also available on native mastodon btw, you can change to it in your settings with "Enable advanced web interface"

@_elena @pancakes @ben @mia @stefan

I thought firefish was super promising but it never stabilized so I deleted my account there.

Im already established now but sharkey does sound cool.

Maybe thats the place we should be nudging people to who are tow-dipping in the fediverse.

@_elena@mastodon.social @pancakes@mastodon.lol @ben@werd.social @mia@flipboard.com @stefan@stefanbohacek.online Thank you for doing such a lovely article on Sharkey! It's quickly become my favorite protocol!

@_elena You could self-host all of this just as easily using @yunohost and a VPS for 15 €/month MAX, or, even better, just with a RaspberryPi plugged in your modem.

Email is the only thing that is a nightmare self-hosted, to be fair.

@_elena Appreciate this post. Its always difficult to explain that nothing is for free and that people pay with their data. And that it is in most cases a bad deal.

It is time time to take the lead and pay for soveregnity.

@_elena
People think it is free but if they had to agree separately to every party that was funding their access they would rarely get 10% down before giving up.

It’s happening!!! I signed up for a #VPS and I’m about to install #YunoHost. Exciteeeeeeed (and slightly scared).

I’m so early in my #Linux journey but I was emboldened after watching a video walkthrough of YunoHost, with the narrator repeating time and time again « it’s so easy a child could do it ».

Let’s see if « it’s so easy a Linux newbie could do it».

Wish me luck! 😅

#mysocalledsudolife

@_elena @cwebber Excellent tip. And one reason to continue to use Mastodon while playing around in Blue Sky.

@_elena@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop
@evan@cosocial.ca amazed that some think this is ok

@_elena @cwebber I was about to ask why is this important but reading the interactions to this toot I found that people consider blocks much more important than I do. In any case I don't really see why is this a problem when there is an alternative mechanism like mute, that is not public.

2.

When one of your posts goes big, you are inundated with comments by strangers - super smart comments here on the Fediverse - and it’s so hard to reply to everyone…

I’m still playing catch-up.

This is frustrating and it makes you feel guilty - because a stranger took the time to write a long, thoughtful response to something you had posted.

You feel rude… and the constant steam of new comments makes the task of replying Sisyphean.

(Cont’)

@_elena

mastodon.social instance has censorship in favor of Israel and Ukraine. Other instances uses their rules. There are issues with any countries - laws per server. For example the German CCC servers, was taken by Police. When you get inside the Fediverse select new instance instead of default, careful.

@poliverso @phanpy @ivory @MonaApp @pixelfed @Tusky @MoogleMaestro

@_elena I made the mistake of using my preferred alias in all my test accounts and wish I hadn’t! Because it’s sometimes hard to get rid of them across the fediverse later on. Moving forward I’m using a one off test alias. But it’s not stopping me from testing out all the platforms I find. 😅

@_elena will you include “discourse” + activitypub plugin? I’d like to know how it interoperates with lemmy because after all they are both forms of forums 😃

@_elena This blog is amazing and it makes me want to join other Fediverse platforms

@_elena I'm really enjoying this series - looking forward to future posts!

@_elena Amazing and very informative post, thanks for mentioning us ❤️

@_elena @pixelfed love it! Gonna join soon :)

@_elena @pixelfed And I can follow you here and there. :)

@_elena Its freaking awesome how ActivityPub works on the fediverse.

@pixelfed

@_elena Excellent post Elena, and I love your blog (both content and style)

Could you add Bluesky to the comparison? I think it's a valid alternative

@_elena thanks so much for what you're doing. As a FLOSS-advocate, too tech savvy guy, we, the FLOSS community, failed at making things welcoming and easy to grasps for regular people.

Now it's time for ordinary non-techy people to appropriate what we built and make it yours. We need you, I hope you'll succeed ✊

Also: this post by @janeadams https://vis.social/@janeadams/110550051059894412