John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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It's not just the tankie stuff. Tbf this place at times feels like the far left version of 4chan, and I say that as a very left person. Reddit's upvote system has always had an issue with brigading/dog piling leading to hostile discussions and echo chambers. In Lemmy, the issue is worse because it feels like most of the people who were drawn here are deeply tied to that culture from Reddit. By contrast, Reddit has a lot more young and innocent people to soften things.
I quit/deleted my Reddit account many years ago, before Lemmy's rise in popularity. I just come here every once in a while because I like decentralized/fediverse stuff, but the Reddit formula really does turn me off. I can't imagine the average person having the stomach for this brand of internet discussions, regardless of political leaning. It's quite hostile and combative.
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Not as many grassroots advocates. Even on the Reddit alternative sub the consensus isn’t lemmy somehow.
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Even better. It’s the fediverses Facebook moment.
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Haven't "shadow" accounts been a thing for years even for people that don't use meta?
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John Oliver for president
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Not a very large userbase.
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you can’t follow people
He said "Lemmy" but probably meant "Threadiverse", and mbin does support both the Twitter-style following user model and the Reddit-style forum model.
To use fedia.io as an example:
I dunno about piefed, haven't used it.
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Idk, to me the comments on lemmy are generally less toxic and I feel like I see way more nuanced discussion than on reddit.
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What do people use Facebook for these days? (I deleted my account about 10 years ago so I'm not sure what it's for now)
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That's what Friendica is for
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I'm actually not sure what it is fb offers that people stay on it for. I find that you don't need it to connect with actual friends. Even just making a Slack for close friends is a far better experience. It's not great for finding news, it's terrible for trying to have any sort of discussion. I genuinely don't understand what purpose it serves.
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This is the first time zuck has gone full ass-kisser with curly hair and a gold chain, though
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I've been gone from FB for about 3 months but for me it was the groups. You could find groups for anything, but personally, I miss my local groups. Particularly the No-Buy and vegan and political activist groups. Finding an equivalent outside of FB is sub par, if it even exists at all.
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They've gone full mask off, which is why there'sthe sudden backlash. The hate speech rules now include a section that explicitly says that it's okay to call LGBTQ people mentally ill. They're the only group with a specific carve-out in the rules saying that it's okay to post hate speech about them.
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So much of Facebook is just automated accounts responding to automated accounts in order to milk gullible advertisers. If everyone logged off tomorrow, I don't know if Zuckerberg would notice.
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He can't because he wasn't born here, but we could totally elect his wife and let him do the whole first husband thing while still advising if she needs it.
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Because Lemmy is nowhere near as ready for primetime as other platforms.
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I think we're too weird and niche.
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Let's hear your different perspectives
