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  • gunpachi@lemmings.worldG [email protected]

    I hope more active users move to the fediverse. That way we will have a lot of variety in content and can also potentially prevent communities from becoming echo chambers. I suppose moderation will also have to be taken up a notch for these changes to actually have a positive effect.

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    Also, more active users means more niche communities. I just realized there’s a Severance community that is medium active. One less thing I need Reddit for.

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      Also, more active users means more niche communities. I just realized there’s a Severance community that is medium active. One less thing I need Reddit for.

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      What! My outie loves Severance.

      I can’t locate this community using search on the term ‘severance’.

      Do you mind sharing the instance and community name?

      Praise Kier!

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        What! My outie loves Severance.

        I can’t locate this community using search on the term ‘severance’.

        Do you mind sharing the instance and community name?

        Praise Kier!

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        Come join the music/dance experience!

        https://lemmy.world/c/severance

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        • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.comM [email protected]

          Any great app on Android for mastodon?

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          fedilab ☞ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.gouv.etalab.mastodon/

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          • flisty@mstdn.socialF [email protected]

            @Flagstaff @gunpachi I'm not sure echo chambers are inherently a bad thing. My real life is a carefully crafted echo chamber of people I like to spend time with (which conveniently includes my family). The problem comes when we get *all* our information from that echo chamber.

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            I agree with what you are saying. What I really meant is that every community should have some amount of people who think differently and see things from a different perspective. This can help widen the variety of posts, comments and even sources used for citations.

            For instance, here on lemmy I've noticed a tendency for people to see things from a political viewpoint and don't hesitate to start a flame war in the comments. Maybe the average user will feel more welcome to express their opinions if they see that the existing users are open minded. Thankfully most communities I'm a part of are very nice, more so than their reddit counterparts.

            P.S: forgive me if there are any logical inconsistencies in my comment. I might be a little intoxicated.

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              Also, more active users means more niche communities. I just realized there’s a Severance community that is medium active. One less thing I need Reddit for.

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              Niche communities are awesome ! Sadly reddit is still the king in this aspect.

              Maybe in a few years lemmy will reach that level or even surpass it... One can dream.

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              • scripthook@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                I tried Bluesky for while but honestly I like Mastadon and Lemmy better. I'm also testing LOOPS (tiktok replacement) which is from the same creator as Pixelfed. There's something comforting using decentralized platforms that are safe from Government and Corporate intervention

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                I like that it feels more like the web when I was younger, smaller communities usually with a more specific topic, run by a person or small group.

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                • gunpachi@lemmings.worldG [email protected]

                  I hope more active users move to the fediverse. That way we will have a lot of variety in content and can also potentially prevent communities from becoming echo chambers. I suppose moderation will also have to be taken up a notch for these changes to actually have a positive effect.

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                  Echo chambers are not bad when the echo is due to the majority opinions being in favor of basic human rights and equality. Giving voice to those that spew hate is not conducive to going anywhere except a circle.

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                  • djdarren@sopuli.xyzD [email protected]

                    I've been using Moshidon. One day I'll find an app as good as Ivory on iOS, but in the meantime Moshidon is fine.

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                    I'll second moshidon. It gets bonus points for letting you see your followed hashtags. Or something like that. There's something with hashtags that you can't do in the web browser that you can do with apps. Moshidon does that thing.

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                    • gunpachi@lemmings.worldG [email protected]

                      Niche communities are awesome ! Sadly reddit is still the king in this aspect.

                      Maybe in a few years lemmy will reach that level or even surpass it... One can dream.

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                      Another thing is google results. When I want a recommendation for anything I will add “Reddit” to my query. This is because I know it will return great recommendations and conversations that help me decide. Hopefully I will eventually be able to just use Lemmy for this.

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                      • scripthook@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                        I tried Bluesky for while but honestly I like Mastadon and Lemmy better. I'm also testing LOOPS (tiktok replacement) which is from the same creator as Pixelfed. There's something comforting using decentralized platforms that are safe from Government and Corporate intervention

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                        What's your impression of loops so far?
                        I've been underwhelmed, but I don't know if that's a platform issue or an adoption issue. Found a couple good accounts to follow, but I really want a block option to keep some accounts out of my "for you"

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                        • scripthook@lemmy.worldS [email protected]

                          I tried Bluesky for while but honestly I like Mastadon and Lemmy better. I'm also testing LOOPS (tiktok replacement) which is from the same creator as Pixelfed. There's something comforting using decentralized platforms that are safe from Government and Corporate intervention

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                          LOOPS

                          Where can I DL and try it?

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                            LOOPS

                            Where can I DL and try it?

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                            https://loops.video/
                            You can download the Android APK or Download TestFlight for iOS to use it. You have to sign up first

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                              LOOPS

                              Where can I DL and try it?

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                              https://loops.video/
                              You can download the Android APK or Download TestFlight for iOS to use it. You have to sign up first

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                                Echo chambers are not bad when the echo is due to the majority opinions being in favor of basic human rights and equality. Giving voice to those that spew hate is not conducive to going anywhere except a circle.

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                                And you will be the one deciding what constitutes hate, whose voice to cut off?

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                                  What's your impression of loops so far?
                                  I've been underwhelmed, but I don't know if that's a platform issue or an adoption issue. Found a couple good accounts to follow, but I really want a block option to keep some accounts out of my "for you"

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                                  Content wise it’s underwhelming but it’s random videos. There’s more variety than Pixelfed which has an even smaller community. Eventually more trends will catch on to Lopps but I hope there’s more original content once it’s out of beta and public

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                                    And you will be the one deciding what constitutes hate, whose voice to cut off?

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                                    Hopefully. ghostrider2112 seems like a decent dude.

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                                      The selfhosting movement sets people free in general.

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                                        And you will be the one deciding what constitutes hate, whose voice to cut off?

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                                        You tell on yourself.

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                                          keeping you engaged on their terms. And their terms alone. There's no freedom

                                          So keeping you engaged on seemingly your own terms is acceptable and possible?

                                          Such articles just make me think of Bluesky with boredom and suspicion.

                                          The real free web is the non-existent luddite web. It should solve problems platforms solve now, but with minimal engagement possible, ideally look for a second, push a button and leave for a walk. A platform is not interested in minimizing engagement, so it should be a system where paid work necessary for its operation doesn't allow one to become a platform.

                                          I like talking about that, and even tried to push myself (executive dysfunction is a bitch) to try to start a little toy project of something like small web (meaning objects with basic hypertext pages with links to other objects ; with current state of an object being a result of many crud-like messages, and which are considered and which are not would be determined by signatures and chain of trust, meaning that two people with different political views could have very different versions of the same forum and both be happy ; such messages and not resulting objects would be what's stored and replicated, like something between Usenet and a version control system). But then realized I don't really want to do that, just to talk about that, and that's more complex than it reads. Maybe eventually, when I'm twice older.

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