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"content": "<p>Hello blog readers and Fedi Friends!</p><p>Two months ago I managed to successfully federate this site, giving it <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ActivityPub</a> superpowers (if you are confused about what this means, I wrote about it for on my Ghost blog <a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-part-2-wordpress-fediverse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Future is Federated</em></a>).</p><p>This feat was the absolute highlight of my summer and I’d love to make it a habit to write more on here – inspired by <a href=\"https://macaw.social/@andypiper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Piper</a>‘s <a href=\"https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/100daystooffload/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#100DaysToOffload</a> (I couldn’t possibly write daily, but maybe weekly).</p><p>In case you missed it, on Friday I published this essay for<em> The Future is Federated</em>: “<strong><a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)</em></a></strong>” (<a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source</a>). It’s my love letter to the Fediverse, listing all the reasons why I truly cherish it.</p><p>What does this have to do with “carpe diem” (seizing the day)?</p><p>Well, earlier this month I learned an important lesson: if I ever have a project idea – especially about a domain name to register – I should not procrastinate but immediately take action.</p><p>In late August I started looking up available URLs for potential future Fediverse projects / self-hosted one-person instances. I thought: for my birthday, I will gift myself two domain names – <em>elena.video</em> and <em>elena.social</em>. They were both available and seemed perfect for the purposes of hosting my own Peertube server… and/or something else.</p><p>Well well well my birthday came and went and on September 18th I checked and saw that <em>elena.video</em> had been registered by someone in Russia on September 12th 2024!!!</p><p>At least I bought/registered <em>elena.social</em>.</p><p>Maybe one day in the not so distant future I will learn how to self-host a Fediverse project and use that as its URL / username. For now,<a href=\"https://elenarossini.com/links/\"> elena.social</a> is redirecting to the “Links” page of this site, listing my social media profiles. I just updated that page to reflect my views and some of the powerful points I shared <a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in my Ghost blog post</a>: “<em>My favorite social networks are all part of the real Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed); I rarely use platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined <a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\">in this blog post</a> (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism).</em>”</p><p>I’m excited but still, I can’t begin to tell you how disappointed I am (to this day!) for not registering <em>elena.video</em> when I saw it was available.</p><p>Well, you live and you learn. Carpe diem folks!</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@_elena\">Elena</a></p><p><em>Cover photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/fr/@antony123antony?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash\">Anton Filatov</a> on <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/fr/photos/un-fond-violet-et-bleu-avec-des-lignes-de-lumiere-O_5SJuSOxZA?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash</a></em></p><p><a href=\"https://elenarossini.com/2024/09/carpe-diem/\" class=\"status-link unhandled-link\">https://elenarossini.com/2024/09/carpe-diem/</a></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/elena-social/\">#elenaSocial</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/fediverse/\">#fediverse</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/the-future-is-federated/\">#TheFutureIsFederated</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/url/\">#URL</a></p>",
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"en": "<p>Hello blog readers and Fedi Friends!</p><p>Two months ago I managed to successfully federate this site, giving it <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivityPub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ActivityPub</a> superpowers (if you are confused about what this means, I wrote about it for on my Ghost blog <a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-part-2-wordpress-fediverse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Future is Federated</em></a>).</p><p>This feat was the absolute highlight of my summer and I’d love to make it a habit to write more on here – inspired by <a href=\"https://macaw.social/@andypiper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andy Piper</a>‘s <a href=\"https://andypiper.co.uk/tag/100daystooffload/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#100DaysToOffload</a> (I couldn’t possibly write daily, but maybe weekly).</p><p>In case you missed it, on Friday I published this essay for<em> The Future is Federated</em>: “<strong><a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)</em></a></strong>” (<a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source</a>). It’s my love letter to the Fediverse, listing all the reasons why I truly cherish it.</p><p>What does this have to do with “carpe diem” (seizing the day)?</p><p>Well, earlier this month I learned an important lesson: if I ever have a project idea – especially about a domain name to register – I should not procrastinate but immediately take action.</p><p>In late August I started looking up available URLs for potential future Fediverse projects / self-hosted one-person instances. I thought: for my birthday, I will gift myself two domain names – <em>elena.video</em> and <em>elena.social</em>. They were both available and seemed perfect for the purposes of hosting my own Peertube server… and/or something else.</p><p>Well well well my birthday came and went and on September 18th I checked and saw that <em>elena.video</em> had been registered by someone in Russia on September 12th 2024!!!</p><p>At least I bought/registered <em>elena.social</em>.</p><p>Maybe one day in the not so distant future I will learn how to self-host a Fediverse project and use that as its URL / username. For now,<a href=\"https://elenarossini.com/links/\"> elena.social</a> is redirecting to the “Links” page of this site, listing my social media profiles. I just updated that page to reflect my views and some of the powerful points I shared <a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in my Ghost blog post</a>: “<em>My favorite social networks are all part of the real Fediverse (Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed); I rarely use platforms owned by Meta & co. for reasons I outlined <a href=\"https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/\">in this blog post</a> (TL;DR: behavior modification and illusion of connection for purposes of surveillance capitalism).</em>”</p><p>I’m excited but still, I can’t begin to tell you how disappointed I am (to this day!) for not registering <em>elena.video</em> when I saw it was available.</p><p>Well, you live and you learn. Carpe diem folks!</p><p><a href=\"https://mastodon.social/@_elena\">Elena</a></p><p><em>Cover photo by <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/fr/@antony123antony?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash\">Anton Filatov</a> on <a href=\"https://unsplash.com/fr/photos/un-fond-violet-et-bleu-avec-des-lignes-de-lumiere-O_5SJuSOxZA?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash</a></em></p><p><a href=\"https://elenarossini.com/2024/09/carpe-diem/\" class=\"status-link unhandled-link\">https://elenarossini.com/2024/09/carpe-diem/</a></p><p><a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/elena-social/\">#elenaSocial</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/fediverse/\">#fediverse</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/the-future-is-federated/\">#TheFutureIsFederated</a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https://elenarossini.com/tag/url/\">#URL</a></p>"
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