John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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I reckon Lemmy is actually pretty good. I wouldn't know if the mobile apps are good, because I don't use those - but for me the core functionality of Lemmy on my computer is smooth and functional. I don't see any obvious low-hanging-fruit.
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"People who disagree" saying "things you don't like" energy
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Yeah that does actually sound pretty decent.
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brazil. it was a cambridge analytica sort of deal, where the bad guys paid facebook to milimetrically target fascist propaganda, antivax sentiment, and a bunch of other bullshit on people.
they were happy to oblige and even interfered when we tried to regulate this away.
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Lemmy is good for the size. It took a while for Lemmy to adjust to its current scale, with major instances having uptime issues.
If we keep the servers up, there is still issues with spam and moderation. We don't have the tools that Reddit built and I expect further pushes towards defederation as the standard for users hasn't been developed.
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Lemmy lacks a bit of polish
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Yep after all that's how musk did it by using trump as the symbolic figurehead
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I ditched reddit for Lemmy during the whole API crackdown bs. I've only used Voyager, but it seems quite comparable to RIF, which is the only way I ever viewed reddit.
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First Gentleman John Oliver.
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I guess the hate for Reddit isn't as great as for Shitter and Fakebook. (yet)
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Agree. I am not an open socialist and my top 5 issues probably don't align with the usual stuff I see at the top of Lemmy communities. Still, it is a worthwhile source for some tech/privacy info and some other niche content.
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Yeah, that’s why I’m considering hosting my own, unfederated instance
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This is literally the answer lmao why are you getting downvoted.
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Meta will still influence people, because a lot of the influence is through news aggregators automatically ingesting what Facebook shows as "Trending" and regurgitates it elsewhere.
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Took a long time, but nice to see this topic getting mainstream attention.
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it's an inside joke of the show where he presents himself as a """secret""" furry that loves rat erotica. The content of the link is legit though.
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Are you able to stop your account from federating but subscribe to people who do federate? In other words, is there a way to create a private account
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Honestly, I don't know. I'd suggest reaching out an admin of one of the instances that has the community guidelines that jive best with you. Their contact info is usually on the instance's home page. They would definitely know.
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I used RIF, but ended up using Jerboa for some random reason I can't remember. Will check out Voyager.
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with the sometimes quite insider-y references, there absolutely is at least one furry on the writing team
