John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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i imagine its because text messages are saved by your provider and can be used or accessed by law enforcement even if deleted. but that may or may not be an issue for most people swapping recipes or talking to their family about normal every day stuff.
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Cool, everybody can build these companies up so that they can launch their IPOs and be controlled by a new board of directors fresh from wall street. It will all be so different.
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Which is why it's based that it wasn't promoted
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Indirectly, looking up "John Oliver Mastodon" brings up this post in the top few. "John Oliver Pixelfed" has this post as the first option
So we're not completely left out
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
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Not commenting on Bluesky, but the others have taken steps to differentiate themselves
Mastodon was handed over to a non profit
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko
Signal has been under a nonprofit
Being open source also means that people can fork the apps if something changes, or apps + server code in the case of a lot of fediverse software
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The whole point of federation is that that can't really happen.
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Intentionally, I think.
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I may be wrong, but I think it's because some company owns the rights to the show in Canada and doesn't want people watching it on YouTube
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Often most of those at the same time.
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So thats why it was slow for a while.
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Probably not, they sell your traffic data to plant trees, they're not privacy oriented its just that their greed serves a common good.
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I've heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.
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Holy shit! A sane rational Lemmy user in the /c/Fediverse community! Someone who sees the bigger picture, and isn't just reacting to this small niche area of the internet.
Look, I love Lemmy, but I can't sit by and act like just because something is a better service, and makes logical sense to use, that people will ever have even heard of it. That's not how PEOPLE work. Yes, Lemmy is better than reddit. But no, Lemmy will not overtake reddit in usercount maybe in my lifetime. Unless reddit gets sold, and then plummets into death like myspace did. Then Lemmy wins by default, but it's not the same thing.
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everyone(well, everyone but you I guess) most people on this community seems to miss all that. -
It's good to have some friends, but don't let too many normies in.....
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It's fun for now until the state gets a hold of it. They'll be over here sooner or later, just let them trickle in and get everyone used to it.
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YES! #winning
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Have you heard of bridgy?
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How can anyone not love the guy?
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Bluesky was always twitters goal, they were losing hella money, so they devloped blue sky.
