There has never been a better time to introduce young French people to the wonderful world of decentralized social networks and - optional - #selfhosting.
An accidental ad for the #Fediverse, exhibit A: politico.eu/article/french-government-mulled-blocking-social-network-amid-protests/
French government mulled blocking social networks and mobile internet amid protests
Paris was in touch with telecom operators in the week leading up to Oct. 24 to examine ways of restricting access to social networks.Émile Marzolf (POLITICO)
Simon Zerafa
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Carlos Solís
in reply to Simon Zerafa • •𓅃𓁩𓃕𓁹
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Diane
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in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Scotty Trees
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Be aware of the French government's instances on Mastodon. 😅
"Gangs meeting" ... aren't they using Telegram like some Bismillah police men? 😎🤡
Dr. DEEvil
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Dianora (Diane Bruce)
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Dianora (Diane Bruce) • • •ティージェーグレェ
in reply to Dianora (Diane Bruce) • • •I was stoked to see that BABEL (e.g. RFC 8966, 9229, etc. also see: irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/) implementations have made their way into BIRD (bird.network.cz/)! Though, I have yet to test that; perhaps they are now less full of Linuxisms and "academic caliber" code and can potentially operate on some BSDs at long last?!
CC: @_elena@mastodon.social
Babel — a loop-avoiding distance-vector routing protocol
www.irif.frDiane Bruce
in reply to ティージェーグレェ • • •Fully Automated! Solarpunk RPG
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •If you have friend group that isn't yet planning for internet restrictions, now is a great time to start.
I'm no pro, but I think Signal is a bare-minimum start. And I try to follow folks on Mastodon like @_elena.
Elena Rossini 🌈
2026-10-27 14:04:20
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in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Caio
in reply to arim_20 • • •Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Sassinake! ᑐ ∪ ∩ ⊂ • • •Luca Sironi
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •They have no idea about the internet, no imagination.
I imagine the advent of many social networks like #holossocial , where every smartphone is the server.
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Luca Sironi • • •joepie91 needs more railing 🚅💦 (🔜 eth0)
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •"The French government explored ways of blocking social networks during last Saturday's protests"
this is fucking wild to read. that's what authoritarian governments (eg. in Syria) have been doing at various points in the past decade, to much derision from western media as "dystopian". and yet it's now being reported on as if it's a normal thing to be doing.
the political frame truly has shifted, huh?
Luna Dragofelis ΘΔ🏳️⚧️🐱
in reply to joepie91 needs more railing 🚅💦 (🔜 eth0) • • •Julianoë
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •@joachim that will need to be done IRL... Because the mass media won't mention it even in Europe and the alternative would be to create TikTok content everyday in hope the algorithm does not shadow bans us for promoting alternatives before we reach an audience.
Gotta print zines and hand them at highschoolers in the street
Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Julianoë • • •@Julianoe @joachim Absolutely.
The reluctance of mainstream media to ever discuss the Fediverse, mesh, reticulum & self-hosting TOTALLY MAKES SENSE NOW.
They are afraid of things they can’t control, so they want to keep the general public in the dark about all this…
Piri
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •Elena Rossini 🌈
in reply to Piri • • •Piri
in reply to Elena Rossini 🌈 • • •It is not revolutionary tech, I keep saying/thinking all that the tech was already invented, there's not many breakthroughs left to discover. What is revolutionary is it's usage, for good and for worse
☭ Father Hardstone
in reply to Piri • • •Briar also works with bluetooth, we've used it here in #Pakistan for a while during protests when all the internet services get shutdown routinely
martijn
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