John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Don't forget Margot Robbie
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True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
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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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The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.
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There we go. I was waiting to be represented.
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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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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.
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How much do you need!?????!
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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.
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I see a lot more Trek memes here than on reddit and I love every one
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They're balls deep in crypto but even the crypto bros don't buy their bullshit
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Thanks, Stefon.
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I feel like there's a buddhist lesson about impermanence here.
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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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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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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.
Content moderation primarily serves advertisers, it was never really for the people. -
Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?
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It definitely was federated back when I made my acct here, as I had to block it lmao.
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They haven't gone through the churn of corporate emshittification enough yet I'd have to guess.
