John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it's understandable that he didn't. Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can't be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
I'm really not happy about bluesky their fragmentation of the fediverse protocols is only going to harm us in the long run.
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Agreed, but at least Bluesky is a public benefit corporation, so it supposed to take in the needs of society as well as profit in its decision-making. That may not be much, but it's a start.
I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring that a start to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people from truly revolutionary platforms.
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Duckduckgo? That's just a search engine, no?
I agree on the rest of the parts tho
DDG and Brave were pushed as "censorship free" alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them
There may be more to it though
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Mom we are on the TV!
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Does that Late Show with John Oliver have a presence in the Fediverse?
The show itself, no, but I think most of the writers moved their personal accounts to Bluesky.
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If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them
Would be nice if he promoted more fediverse platforms like Mbin
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Anyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?
You have to use a VPN.
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Anyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?
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You have to use a VPN.
I just got it on the dl instead
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Duckduckgo? That's just a search engine, no?
I agree on the rest of the parts tho
I mean yeah, doesnt matter. The point is people shared alternatives to big tech just like folks who are not in the power right now
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The CEO is problematic and right wing, for examples see the most recent paragraphs in his career section on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
Wait, the Mozilla guy who got pressured to resign over opposition to gay marriage is the Brave guy?? Fuck him lol.
Unsurprising he’s also a dipshit about COVID.
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I mean yeah, doesnt matter. The point is people shared alternatives to big tech just like folks who are not in the power right now
I mistook it as you saying DDG is alt-tech. My mistake
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If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them
Would like to get my family on Signal. I deleted my facebook account and now we use various other chat apps that I don't quite like
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Mom we are on the TV!
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How is Brave right wing? Because of cryptocurrencies?
Brave's business model is a crypto scam wrapped in a protection racket. It man-in-the-middles the site's ads, replacing them with Brave's own, then holds the revenue hostage unless the site gives legitimacy to Brave's crypto by accepting it as payment.
For comparison, "normal" ad-blocking consists of an end-user exercising his property right to control the operation of his own computer by programming it not to display the ads at all.
Hopefully you can see how the thing Brave does is very different, and much more ethically fraught.
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I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring that a start to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people from truly revolutionary platforms.
"Public benefit corporation" is such an oxymoron, I know it's cliché to say this but it reads like something out of 1984.
If your goal is truly to benefit the public, why wouldn't you start a non-profit? It's because they want profits, which will always be at odds with the interests of the public.
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I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring that a start to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people from truly revolutionary platforms.
Their protocol allows for federated relay servers, but I'm not aware of anyone having done the exercise of launching one.
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Would be nice if he promoted more fediverse platforms like Mbin
Missed opportunity.I guess they weren't picked as they don't have official apps. Most people look for those first.
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Jack is still the single largest shareholder of private Bluesky stock ...
Oh vraiment?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dm0ljg4y6o
If anyone tells you Jack isn't involved with BlueSky any more, you should really block them for either being willfully ignorant, or purposefully mistrustful
