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Elena Rossini ⁂

2 weeks ago • •

Elena Rossini ⁂
2 weeks ago • •

Good morning Fedi friends!

Using my GoToSocial account and its glorious 5000 character limit to clear the air about #WSocial and my opposition to it / why I want to speak up:

aseachange.com/@elena/statuses…

Yes, I'm well aware there are bigger problems in the world but the battle I picked is: rebellion against techbros / promotion of FOSS and the fediverse.

Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, stay safe and resist ✊

#wsocial

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Ericka Simone

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • 2 weeks ago • •

gotosocial looking nice.

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Elena Rossini ⁂

in reply to Ericka Simone • 2 weeks ago • •

@ErickaSimone thanks Ericka! You can actually set the character limit you want on a self-hosted GoToSocial. 5000 is the default but you could probably increase it too 🤗 I love it

@Ericka Simone

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Elena Rossini ⁂

Unknown parent • 2 weeks ago • •

@zotheca sorry I meant that I wanted to use my GoToSocial account to share my PLANS for a blog post about WSocial... because I hate writing threads and I wanted to put everything in one post.

The article will be published next week on my blog: blog.elenarossini.com - and if I'm chaotic neutral, shared via an awesome URL I just grabbed (the wsocial peeps were amateurs and didn't register related domains)... I'm the proud owner of one - wsocial [dot] country code - that I could set up as redirect

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Aaron 🥞

Unknown parent • 2 weeks ago • •

@zotheca I think this post was just a defense of writing the post later on about W Social, and because Mastodon has a more strict character limit. This isn't the criticism post of W Social.

@zotheca

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Elena Rossini ⁂

in reply to Aaron 🥞 • 2 weeks ago • •

@aaronmccollum YES this exactly Aaron, thank you! You beat me to it...

I just wrote this: mastodon.social/@_elena/115955…

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Elena Rossini ⁂

2026-01-25 09:26:56

@zotheca sorry I meant that I wanted to use my GoToSocial account to share my PLANS for a blog post about WSocial... because I hate writing threads and I wanted to put everything in one post.
The article will be published next week on my blog: blog.elenarossini.com - and if I'm chaotic neutral, shared via an awesome URL I just grabbed (the wsocial peeps were amateurs and didn't register related domains)... I'm the proud owner of one - wsocial [dot] country code - that I could set up as redirect

@Aaron 🥞 @zotheca

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Elena Rossini ⁂

Unknown parent • 2 weeks ago • •

@zotheca Why do you say that? It's a pretty wild projection. The crux of my objection is with their complete disregard for EuroSky, the insistence of government ID and their terrible security

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ImaCrea

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • 2 weeks ago • •

Great piece! It seems that asking helped you clarify your determination and conviction about that issue. Thank you for all what you doing and I can't wait to read and share your article. ✊🤗

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Elena Rossini ⁂

in reply to ImaCrea • 2 weeks ago • •

@imacrea thank you 😊

@ImaCrea

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Elena Rossini ⁂

Unknown parent • 2 weeks ago • •

@zotheca I have pretty explosive evidence of how terrible their security is... I look forward to getting your feedback once the piece is published

@zotheca

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fab:log

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • 2 weeks ago • •

Hi Elena, maybe you check out this Mastodon instance as an alternative offering a 5.000 character limit for posts. 😎
infosec.exchange/explore

Infosec Exchange

A Mastodon instance for info/cyber security-minded people.

^{Mastodon hosted on infosec.exchange}

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Andrepax

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • 2 weeks ago • •

Fediverse is the drug, but not for that kind of disease. Fediverse is about caring for relationships and taking responsibility for what you post; it's about how you perceive yourself in relation to others. Raise all the critical issues regarding wsocial, but remember that, as things stand, Mastodon protocol does not guarantee data protection (feeds and other data are public and grabbable via public APIs). Please remember this, if your goal is mass-adoption of fedi.

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notsoloud

in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • 2 weeks ago • •

The battle against the techbros is very important among those bigger problems.

So much of the current global craziness is a consequence of people consuming media that can easily be used for centralized individualized mass manipulation.