John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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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
Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
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The thing about fedi is how do u stop it. Ban every instances ip? make it illegal to use? They can try but they will have very little success.
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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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
You don't just trade 1 powerful ceo for another when you get the chance to leave. Ridiculous.
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Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?
Bluesky is corporate, Mastodon is FOSS.
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
It has its own charm once you get used to it lmao
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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
Here's the same video on PeerTube
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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.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? -
Really hoping legislators in Sweden don't force Signal to pull its services from the country. 🫣
What legislation would do that? Would they want access to your messages or something?
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Also dull people
Thanks (･–･) \(･◡･)/
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Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
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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Yeah, infighting in the resistance is a waste of time.
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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 a big surprise it's only the alternatives to twitter and instagram.
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Bluesky will be the next Twitter. Just give it some time
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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I feel like the DNC are being pushed into a blindspot for the general public.
All Bernie has done is go around to speak at different events, and he is far from the only politician to do so.
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.
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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?Are you new to the internet? NSFW literally means what it says: it's content that would not be safe for you to be viewing at work.
Advertising has nothing to do with it, which is why you still get ads on NSFW boards on 4chan; they're just NSFW ads.
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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.
Socialized healthcare, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich is not "the lesser evil" it's fucking good. It's blatantly a force of great good that we keep snubbing and blaming for no reason at all.
What we should be doing is giving them majorities and supermajorities and praising them for the great work they do.
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Not Lemmy though. Based.
Not based.
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Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?
There's a viral marketing campaign going on right now to herd the twitter sheep to the next rich-person's platform. That's why we keep seeing useful idiots say "bluesky" instead of "Mastodon."
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On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won't face the same problems old social media did.
Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.
BlueSky made their own standard, citing that ActivityPub wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that's true. However with their structure, a centralized relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn't truly decentralized. BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance.
BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech.
My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they're promising, but I'm not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.
BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do
Sounds like bullshit for useful idiots that don't know what they're talking about.
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Exactly, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Someone using BlueSky over Twitter is a good thing.
We still shouldn't be doing the dirty work of rich people for them.
We should all be promoting Mastodon over the centralized and corporate-owned bluesky.
