Elena Rossini
Elena Rossini
Elena Rossini
Elena Rossini is an Italian filmmaker, photographer and activist. Rossini’s work focuses on issues of media literacy, digital sovereignty, and harnessing the power of the internet for change.
Latest Posts
an update about what I've been up to in August 2025, from things I wrote, to what I'm reading and new projects and goals
Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech.
a look back at the first year of the blog series "The Future is Federated" and what lies ahead
An update about what I have been up in June and July 2025: from the release of my Fediverse promo video in English, French, Italian and Czech, to speaking at #PubConf2025 in Amsterdam, and figuring out other ways to promote the Fediverse
My 4-minute video that celebrates the Fediverse and introduces it to people not familiar with it is available in 3 foreign-language versions (English, French and Italian) as well as over a dozen subtitles in other languages.
A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it
What I've been up to this month? Work on a promotional film for the fediverse... and preparations to speak at a FOSS conference in Lyon
Technological platforms are not neutral. If we truly want to resist the digital coup that is currently under way, we need to normalize the use of free, open source solutions.
A post detailing the things I'm focusing on right now (March-April 2025)
What is it like to use PeerTube as a video creator? Spoiler alert: it's amazing!
A walk-through of PeerTube, an open-source, federated alternative to YouTube
A post detailing the things I'm focusing on right now (February 2025)
An overview of GoToSocial: a fast, lightweight, security-focused server that makes self-hosting on the Fediverse easy
If we want the Fediverse to be sustainable and to emerge as the ethical alternative to Big Tech's social platforms we need to actively help it out. From the bottom up.