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
I'm going to assume this was Daniel O'Brien's doing... because he's the only only Last Week writer I know specifically.
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It’s not explicitly rightwing.
A couple years ago Musk was recommending Signal.
It’s just an example of right wing people recommending alternatives.
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
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Someone on mastodon told me, if you haven't found someone on fedi, you ate probably not looking hard enough. But no, I don't think they are on fedi
Someone is wrong lol. NFL, for example, cannot do anything outside of Twitter at this time. They are apparently working on it, but it's gotta be implemented league-wide, so it's taking some time. Idk if they're even trying to get onto Mastodon, last I heard it was just Bluesky.
This is a large org with hundreds of millions of fans, with no presence on Fediverse really. I'm sure there are mirror accounts, but none are official.
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It's crazy how the wind changed. Does anyone remeber the almost exact same thing 4 years ago, when people on the right side of political spectrum shared alternatives to big tech from their point ov view? GAB.COM, PARLER, BRAVE, DUCKDUCKGO etc
XD
In both cases it was primarily performative for Americans but this time there will be considerable chunk of Europeans who will be looking to leave big tech for services in non-hostile countries.
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Anyone have a link that works for Canadians, you MONSTERS?
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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.
