John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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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.
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Are we that degenerate already??
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Indeed it is, that is such a weird block
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SMS is incredibly antiquated as soon as you want to do anything multimedia, or heck sending an SMS longer than 144 characters.
My mother received a video over SMS the other day and it legitimately looked like it was filmed on a Nokia 6310.
I've encouraged my family to use Signal to replace SMS and it functions really well as an SMS upgrade. It's more secure, private, supports sending decent quality multimedia, the interface is simplistic, it has formatting, does video calls well.
From both a security and usability perspective, it wins out on SMS in my opinion.
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Maybe you want to communicate through an encrypted service?
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It's no different than reddit, DIGG, or the Something Awful forums before they got popular.
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i imagine its because text messages are saved by your provider and can be used or accessed by law enforcement even if deleted. but that may or may not be an issue for most people swapping recipes or talking to their family about normal every day stuff.
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Cool, everybody can build these companies up so that they can launch their IPOs and be controlled by a new board of directors fresh from wall street. It will all be so different.
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Which is why it's based that it wasn't promoted
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Indirectly, looking up "John Oliver Mastodon" brings up this post in the top few. "John Oliver Pixelfed" has this post as the first option
So we're not completely left out
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
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Not commenting on Bluesky, but the others have taken steps to differentiate themselves
Mastodon was handed over to a non profit
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
Signal has been under a nonprofit
Being open source also means that people can fork the apps if something changes, or apps + server code in the case of a lot of fediverse software
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The whole point of federation is that that can't really happen.
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Intentionally, I think.
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I may be wrong, but I think it's because some company owns the rights to the show in Canada and doesn't want people watching it on YouTube
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Often most of those at the same time.
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So thats why it was slow for a while.
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Probably not, they sell your traffic data to plant trees, they're not privacy oriented its just that their greed serves a common good.
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I've heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.
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Holy shit! A sane rational Lemmy user in the /c/Fediverse community! Someone who sees the bigger picture, and isn't just reacting to this small niche area of the internet.
Look, I love Lemmy, but I can't sit by and act like just because something is a better service, and makes logical sense to use, that people will ever have even heard of it. That's not how PEOPLE work. Yes, Lemmy is better than reddit. But no, Lemmy will not overtake reddit in usercount maybe in my lifetime. Unless reddit gets sold, and then plummets into death like myspace did. Then Lemmy wins by default, but it's not the same thing.
And
everyone(well, everyone but you I guess) most people on this community seems to miss all that.
