John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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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
Not a big surprise it's only the alternatives to twitter and instagram.
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Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
Why bluesky instead of mastodon?
Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?
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I feel like the DNC are being pushed into a blindspot for the general public.
All Bernie has done is go around to speak at different events, and he is far from the only politician to do so.
It's what the DNC wants. They want to only be seen as the "lesser evil" to people like trump.
They genuinely have no interest in helping the working class, because they're not a part of it.
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Lemmy has also taken over advertiser focused moderation patterns. A great example is NSFW. What is NSFW exactly? Not safe for work? Why is that relevant?
NSFW is literally just advertiser unfriendly content. Why else group nakedness, violence, sexual content, and death in the same category?Are you new to the internet? NSFW literally means what it says: it's content that would not be safe for you to be viewing at work.
Advertising has nothing to do with it, which is why you still get ads on NSFW boards on 4chan; they're just NSFW ads.
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It's what the DNC wants. They want to only be seen as the "lesser evil" to people like trump.
They genuinely have no interest in helping the working class, because they're not a part of it.
Socialized healthcare, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich is not "the lesser evil" it's fucking good. It's blatantly a force of great good that we keep snubbing and blaming for no reason at all.
What we should be doing is giving them majorities and supermajorities and praising them for the great work they do.
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Not Lemmy though. Based.
Not based.
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Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?
There's a viral marketing campaign going on right now to herd the twitter sheep to the next rich-person's platform. That's why we keep seeing useful idiots say "bluesky" instead of "Mastodon."
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On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won't face the same problems old social media did.
Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.
BlueSky made their own standard, citing that ActivityPub wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that's true. However with their structure, a centralized relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn't truly decentralized. BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance.
BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech.
My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they're promising, but I'm not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.
BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do
Sounds like bullshit for useful idiots that don't know what they're talking about.
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Exactly, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Someone using BlueSky over Twitter is a good thing.
We still shouldn't be doing the dirty work of rich people for them.
We should all be promoting Mastodon over the centralized and corporate-owned bluesky.
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This right here, the everyday person doesn't know what federation is let alone believes that it's an alternative to federated platforms. They see it as a better Twitter that's not run by Musk and honestly that's all they need to know.
and honestly that’s all they need to know.
Err... why are we suggesting the corporate-owned and centralized bluesky over Mastodon then?
Oh right, viral marketing and useful idiots. I shouldn't have expected more.
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Socialized healthcare, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich is not "the lesser evil" it's fucking good. It's blatantly a force of great good that we keep snubbing and blaming for no reason at all.
What we should be doing is giving them majorities and supermajorities and praising them for the great work they do.
They don't care about doing any of that, though. They only make promises to get elected and reneg on everything once in office.
Did any of that happen while Biden was in office? Didn't think so. It's because he's a stooge propped up by the ruling class to make people like you think he has your interests at hand. He doesn't. Establishment democrats do not want to raise taxes on the wealthy. That's a progressive agenda.
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They don't care about doing any of that, though. They only make promises to get elected and reneg on everything once in office.
Did any of that happen while Biden was in office? Didn't think so. It's because he's a stooge propped up by the ruling class to make people like you think he has your interests at hand. He doesn't. Establishment democrats do not want to raise taxes on the wealthy. That's a progressive agenda.
Those are literally laws they have written, voted on, and in some cases actually passed before.
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Are you new to the internet? NSFW literally means what it says: it's content that would not be safe for you to be viewing at work.
Advertising has nothing to do with it, which is why you still get ads on NSFW boards on 4chan; they're just NSFW ads.
If you work from home it becomes NSFH.
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Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
I signed up today. I never liked Twitter but I will give it a try. Steam (PC gaming platform) is a member so that's a plus for me.
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Why bluesky instead of mastodon?
Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?
I’m wondering this too People are hyped about bluesky but it is the same corpo bullshit that Twitter is. I mean it is literally by the same dude. Why fold?,
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Why bluesky instead of mastodon?
Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?
There is another interpretation. Calm down.
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There is another interpretation. Calm down.
Err.. what?
Care to explain what that 'other interpretation' is?
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It has its own charm once you get used to it lmao
The charm is why I keep coming back. Especially when it comes to the Lemmy Charm comments for lemmynsfw.com.
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Really hoping legislators in Sweden don't force Signal to pull its services from the country. 🫣
Signal has been questionable for years. The way it's been pushed hardly, and how Moxie is emeritus, while much more questionable people are in control, doesn't fill one with confidence, and does ring some alarm bells. The relative proximity to some in the US establishment should be enough to do that. And the way some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as "Russian Propaganda" and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.
Frankly, I would trust something like Wire more than Signal. And there are other options too.
Ideally, something with good security/privacy and is fully P2P would become popular. But those apps/networks never make it mainstream, which is unfortunate.
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Don't forget Margot Robbie
The Picard Maneuver "Am I joke to you?"
