John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Yeah I think it's best we don't advertise this place. It's a little strange.
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Senpai noticed me!!
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Is the video seriously region blocked in Canada, but not in Russia?
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I don't understand the point of installing a web browser that only runs one website.
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Is that mpv
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someone tell that n00b that Bluesky is not an alternative
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Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025
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I've never understood why people just can't send messages through text. Like why do they need a special app in order to do it.
I don't use Facebook myself and my family members just started texting me and honestly it's so much easier
Don't get me wrong, I definitely think that signal is more secure. I just don't understand why people just install another app in order to communicate with their family, just let them know you're available through text
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Very interesting, thanks for telling me - i recall them sharing your IP with bing/google? but since they're building their own, this may change. I'll keep an eye on this, thank you
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This right here, the everyday person doesn't know what federation is let alone believes that it's an alternative to federated platforms. They see it as a better Twitter that's not run by Musk and honestly that's all they need to know.
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Are we that degenerate already??
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Indeed it is, that is such a weird block
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SMS is incredibly antiquated as soon as you want to do anything multimedia, or heck sending an SMS longer than 144 characters.
My mother received a video over SMS the other day and it legitimately looked like it was filmed on a Nokia 6310.
I've encouraged my family to use Signal to replace SMS and it functions really well as an SMS upgrade. It's more secure, private, supports sending decent quality multimedia, the interface is simplistic, it has formatting, does video calls well.
From both a security and usability perspective, it wins out on SMS in my opinion.
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Maybe you want to communicate through an encrypted service?
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It's no different than reddit, DIGG, or the Something Awful forums before they got popular.
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i imagine its because text messages are saved by your provider and can be used or accessed by law enforcement even if deleted. but that may or may not be an issue for most people swapping recipes or talking to their family about normal every day stuff.
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Cool, everybody can build these companies up so that they can launch their IPOs and be controlled by a new board of directors fresh from wall street. It will all be so different.
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Which is why it's based that it wasn't promoted
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Indirectly, looking up "John Oliver Mastodon" brings up this post in the top few. "John Oliver Pixelfed" has this post as the first option
So we're not completely left out
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
