John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

[rubisco@slrpnk.net]

You mean Last Week Tonight? The Late Show is Colbert.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

They are, probably even too quiet. But the level of griefers, bots and trolls is very very low, and selfishly, I REALLY like that.

[hex@programming.dev]

Wait how is Squid this popular?

[prioritymotif@lemmy.world]

Also dull people

[guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works]

Don't forget the Trekkies.

[prioritymotif@lemmy.world]

It costs me less than $10/mo to run mine and some of that is because I have to pay for an email forwarder until my hosting provider lets me start sending emails, part of that is factoring the cost of the domain name. The actual cloud server costs $5/mo right now.

[defectivefoundation@lemmy.world]

Isn't it easier to handle most users on on server than it is to have a bunch of equal servers? Then the problem just moves off the one server towards the communication between the servers being the bottleneck.

[luckyeddy@lemm.ee]

It is to twitter.

[internetcitizen2@lemmy.world]

Its not, this incident will be reported to the nearest democracy officer.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

Don't forget Margot Robbie

[internetcitizen2@lemmy.world]

True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.

[jackbydev@programming.dev]

Exactly, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Someone using BlueSky over Twitter is a good thing.

[zarkanian@sh.itjust.works]

What did Lemmy do that made him a monster?

[ikidd@lemmy.world]

The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.

[meaanbeaan@lemmy.world]

There we go. I was waiting to be represented.

[emperor@feddit.uk]

Yeah, the important thing is to get people off the Big Web, we can work on getting them their forever home later.

[lillypip@lemmy.ca]

You’re absolutely right, but as a UxD, until these platforms learn UxD, they’ll never work. They can’t.

It doesn’t matter how great they are, the vast majority of people won’t learn. And they shouldn’t have to. That’s why big commercial apps are better – good designers need to eat, and big companies can pay for their eggs.

It doesn’t matter how good your model is, without great UxD, you’re dead in the water.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

How much do you need!?????!

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

I think he plays the awkward card to actual cringe levels at times but I'll also watch Cody's Showdy so that can't be it entirely.

Can't say I love him, but I do appreciate the work he does.

[fordbeeblebrox@lemmy.world]

I see a lot more Trek memes here than on reddit and I love every one