Stefan Wintermeyer: Thank you, Benjamin!

“No, the link is not in the comments anymore!” 🥳

📻 Yesterday I recorded my monthly segment for Libre à vous ! (libreavous.org), the radio show from @aprilorg@pouet.april.org, the French free software advocacy association.
It airs live every Tuesday from 3:30 to 5 pm on Radio Cause Commune (93.1 FM and DAB+ in the Paris area, and worldwide on the radio’s website).
Free software news, April’s political and legal work, guests, and music under free licenses: it’s made for everyone, whether you’ve never heard of free software or you’re an expert.

This week’s show was hosted by @frederic@pouet.couchet.org.

The “Café Libre” discussion brought together @maudroyer@mastodon.social, @pb@mast.eu.org and @vincentcalame@piaille.fr.

In his own segment, @luk_@mas.to made a clever parallel with “The Emperor’s New Clothes”.

My topic: let’s free social networks! And one of the things I talked about: VUTUV.

I discovered it last week at the Berlin FediDay 2026, held at c-base, where it was presented by its creator, @wintermeyer.
It’s something I had been waiting for a very long time: a free, open source and federated alternative to LinkedIn.
A place where you don’t have to hide your links in the comments to please an algorithm.

Honestly, it’s extraordinary. It’s functionally very rich, and I really like it.

I’m writing this from vutuv, but you’re probably reading it from another social network (Mastodon maybe?): that’s the magic of the Fediverse.

👉 So create your account on vutuv now!

It’s free, free as in free beer and free as in free speech. And you can even import your data from LinkedIn if you want to.

The “Libre à vous” podcast, with its full transcript, will be published soon.
I’ll share the link when it’s published.