John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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They'd shut down large instances, pressure WordPress to remove support, in the US at least, it could be seen as too risky, if they wanted to they would find a way. I don't think this would happen easily in the EU though.
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Really hoping legislators in Sweden don't force Signal to pull its services from the country. 🫣
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What about the dragon type?
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This was literally the photo that finally got me banned from Reddit years ago.
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As long as no one sells off Lemmy, which is impossible now...
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For me the advantage of Bluesky is that I can own my identity. I can reserve [email protected] and use that, without having to run my own instance.
With Mastodon I’d have to put up a full-ass server instance and worry about federation etc just to have my “own” identity instead of [email protected] or something
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Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
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You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn't adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.
All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.
They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.
We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they'll do what they can to make it go away.
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You don't just trade 1 powerful ceo for another when you get the chance to leave. Ridiculous.
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Bluesky is corporate, Mastodon is FOSS.
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It has its own charm once you get used to it lmao
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Here's the same video on PeerTube
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Lemmy has also taken over advertiser focused moderation patterns. A great example is NSFW. What is NSFW exactly? Not safe for work? Why is that relevant?
NSFW is literally just advertiser unfriendly content. Why else group nakedness, violence, sexual content, and death in the same category? -
What legislation would do that? Would they want access to your messages or something?
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Thanks (･–･) \(･◡･)/
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Exactly! All a person has to do is to look around - the right buys up all popular media platforms and converts them to propaganda outlets.
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Not a big surprise it's only the alternatives to twitter and instagram.
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Why bluesky instead of mastodon?
Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?
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It's what the DNC wants. They want to only be seen as the "lesser evil" to people like trump.
They genuinely have no interest in helping the working class, because they're not a part of it.
