John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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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
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Oh, absolutely! That's maybe why the jokes feel so pure and not disrespectful.
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On Lemmy a comment gets a well thought out reply. On Reddit not even a vote.
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it's not an alternative to any meta platform
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He should have offered the motor coach to Trump instead
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You do know his wife is a Republican right? A proud Bush/Obama era Republican? They literally met at the GOP convention in 2008.
What is with liberals and playing fantasy games with politics? On the one hand liberals will say elections are important and have consequences and on the other they'll treat it like a game of putting in your celebrity faves without bothering to care about their actual views.
Who knows what Jon himself actually thinks given he married a proud Republican and the fact he's a TV comedian playing a character. For all you know deep down he could personally be a never-Trump Republican himself.
