The Fediverse explained in 4 minutes: watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say.

🌍 There are subtitles available in: English, Catalan, traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Spanish and Swedish.

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Credits

Director: Elena Rossini
Writing: Elena Rossini & Sam Aaberg
Cinematography: Sam Aaberg & Riyen Patel
Camera operator: Riyen Patel
Editing & motion graphics: Elena Rossini


Special thanks to

Marcel Costa for the Catalan translation
Pen-Yuan Hsing for the Traditional Chinese translation
Jan Dytrych for the Czech translation
Fritjof for the Danish translation
Erik Kemp for the Dutch translation
Johannes Palola for the Finnish translation
sknob for help with the French translation
Severin for the German translation
Talya for the Hebrew translation
Claudio for help with the Italian translation
Hong Minhee for the Korean translation
Adrian Janiak for the Polish translation
Tarcísio Surdi for the Portuguese Brazilian translation
Daniel Casanueva for the Spanish translation
Jan Ainali for the Swedish translation

For additional articles on the Fediverse, check out my blog series The Future is Federated:

The Future is Federated - Elena Rossini
The Future is Federated is a series of essays about the Fediverse with the goal of introducing it to people not familiar with it... and showing interoperability between projects for more advanced users. The future is already here, thanks to the magic of ActivityPub!

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Last Update: July 23, 2025