Dear Fedi friends,
I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.
I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).
The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️
I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.
And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly
Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca
The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.
I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌
Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲
#TheFutureIsFederated
@elena I closed the window after the tenth time Little Snitch reported this kind of nonsense. I was barely 20 seconds in. Whatever video host you are using is working against your case.
@jwz @elena I may be completely misinformed here, but isn't this because PeerTube is P2P and these are other peers trying to connect with you?
EDIT: I started the video and let it run for 10 seconds and I already have 6 peers.
@davey_cakes @jalict @elena It would not surprise me to learn that I have never clicked on a peertube link before. But any system that requires me to accept all connections from any IP to any UDP port, is not a system I will be allowing to access my computer. If that's what peertube requires, it's a terrible design.
@jwz @davey_cakes @jalict As far as I know, it doesn't require it. You can still watch the video.
PeerTube does that to alleviate the bandwidth of the small self-hosted servers where it is installed. When many people want to watch the same video, each share the upload and download, so that the server can survive the load. It's like a tiny BitTorrent.