John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Wait how is Squid this popular?
Its not, this incident will be reported to the nearest democracy officer.
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A flying squid, too.
Don't forget Margot Robbie
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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.
True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
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I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it's understandable that he didn't. Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can't be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
Exactly, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Someone using BlueSky over Twitter is a good thing.
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What did Lemmy do that made him a monster?
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.
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Don't forget the Trekkies.
There we go. I was waiting to be represented.
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True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
Yeah, the important thing is to get people off the Big Web, we can work on getting them their forever home later.
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I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring that a start to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people from truly revolutionary platforms.
Youâre absolutely right, but as a UxD, until these platforms learn UxD, theyâll never work. They canât.
It doesnât matter how great they are, the vast majority of people wonât learn. And they shouldnât have to. Thatâs why big commercial apps are better â good designers need to eat, and big companies can pay for their eggs.
It doesnât matter how good your model is, without great UxD, youâre dead in the water.
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The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.
How much do you need!?????!
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How can anyone not love the guy?
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.
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Don't forget the Trekkies.
I see a lot more Trek memes here than on reddit and I love every one
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I've heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.
They're balls deep in crypto but even the crypto bros don't buy their bullshit
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
Thanks, Stefon.
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True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
I feel like there's a buddhist lesson about impermanence here.
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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.
Haha, yeah Cody has definitely made me cringe out of discomfort before. I haven't watched that guy in awhile! Appreciate the reminder. And Oliver can get close to that level too, for sure.
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I wouldnât mind having some ads, but I wonder how some more extremists users would react.
But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be, it places the burden of âbeggingâ on the instance owners, which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.
But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be
If you get a good deal on hosting then, on medium-sized instance donations easily cover costs. lemmy.world suggests this can scale up a lot even if you need more complex systems in place to deal with demand.
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If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them
Not friendica, which seems an obvious facebook alternative.
Also, I think they're onto something with their fuck it approach that every social media platform would benefit from.
The internet was mostly that before.
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If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them
Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?
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Is sh.itjust.works not federated with lemmynsfw.com? Or maybe you use a Front page or Local feed. Here on world (no comment on the instance wars), lemmynsfw communities pretty regularly show up on my All feed. Seems like whatever they do with posts over there really makes the "Active" sorter happy, if you know what I mean
It definitely was federated back when I made my acct here, as I had to block it lmao.
