John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn't adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.
All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.
They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.
We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they'll do what they can to make it go away.
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You don't just trade 1 powerful ceo for another when you get the chance to leave. Ridiculous.
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Bluesky is corporate, Mastodon is FOSS.
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It has its own charm once you get used to it lmao
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Here's the same video on PeerTube
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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? -
What legislation would do that? Would they want access to your messages or something?
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Thanks (･–･) \(･◡･)/
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Exactly! All a person has to do is to look around - the right buys up all popular media platforms and converts them to propaganda outlets.
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Not a big surprise it's only the alternatives to twitter and instagram.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Not based.
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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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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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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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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.
