With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it’s scary. And so I’d like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.

I personally hate it when I’m stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you’re reading this, the likely chance is you’re the same.

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn’t of enough substance to be worth anyone’s time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won’t have to visit walled gardens so often.

Thank you :)

  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If anyone can help, what’s the “shit just works” pixelfed version? I joined the biggest one but don’t want to give one instance too much power.
    I tried to join the 5th or 6th largest but the buttons to sign up wouldn’t work :(

  • fxomt@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    2025 year of the fediverse???

    Jokes aside, i completely agree. Meta and Xitter completely shot themselves in the foot (lol) and pixelfed is gaining mainstream attention, and the new year just started!

    I predict we’ll gain a massive influx of new users next year, due to the kindness of Zucc and Muskrat 😊

    • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      And who says they’ve never done anything good?

      But yeah, let’s ride that momentum all the way into the year of the fediverse!

  • youngbullhowling@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’ve started explaining this to non-techies. Hopefully starting to gain a little traction as the meta/ticktock machine becomes more and more egregious. Also this is speeding up the homelab I’m building.

    I’d add the appropriate meme but I’m new here.

    I’m doing my part .gif
  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Maybe in the coming 4 years people will finally understand why handing over everything to corps isn’t great. Whether they’ll do anything with that understanding is questionable though. The amount of “but it’s so easy” and “I’m just one person” doomerism is fantastic.

  • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Since all this shit started happening I’ve deleted all the social media apps on my phone and I’ve started using lemmy more. Gonna switch my YouTube shit over to peertube when I can.

    Intending to actually delete my accounts in the coming weeks too. Bye bye, 13 year old reddit account. Nobody gonna miss ya.

    Tbf I have been using Nebula a lot since I signed up pretty cheaply and I enjoy it. It’s owned by the creators. Found it through Jacob Geller.

    • Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      YouTube is a bit of an issue as unlike the others there’s a lot of content and information you can’t get elsewhere.

      I’ve been considering using a proxy to scrape and download subscriptions and add them to a personal server. Probably not practical to do for everything though with how much space that would be.

      At the very least see if there’s a wrapper that can strip out a lot of content and just show the stuff I want to watch VS all the nonsense they fire at you.

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Bye bye, 13 year old reddit account.

      don’t forget to delete your comments there!

      • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I mean if the account is deleted it’s no longer tied (to the puboic at least), and I’m not about to fool myself into thinking my internet use is actually secure.

        • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          2 months ago

          During the API exodus a lot of us deleted our comments bc we didn’t like the fact that Reddit was monetizing the knowledge we had created. Some people argued that it was better that the knowledge remain out there. Either way is cool I guess.

          • Banana@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            That’s understandable! I’ll consider this when I go to delete my account. Thank you for that info!

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What is peoples opinions on reposting. Sometimes i see a cool video from a creator i like and i want to repost it to loops but i feel like im stealing and reuploading their work. I think reposting to lemmy is fine since its a link aggregation site first.

  • frankspurplewings@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Is there a list or links somewhere of the defederated basic site replacements?

    Like I know about Lemmy (replacement for reddit), Loops (replacement for ticktock/reels), and pixelfed (replacement for insta). Oh and I switched from Spotify to tidal. 🤷🏼‍♀️

    Is there a YouTube replacement? Thats really the next big media channel I use daily…

    Thanks Lemmy friends 💜

  • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    What iphone apps do yall use? Rnow I’m using loops for the tiktokclond (hoping more creators join and post there) and mlem for lemmy (liking it more than voyager, arctic seems cleaner but I got used to this interface). Does anyone have a good mastadon app they reccomend? I’m using bluesky since getting an okay feed was easier there, not sure if thats the apps fault. I do like an algorithim just not one based on controversy.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I use Ice Cubes for Mastodon.

      I’m one of the Mlem developers; I’m glad you’re enjoying it :) You could also consider trying the Mlem beta if you haven’t already. It’s about 8 months’ worth of development ahead of the App Store version. The reason why we haven’t updated the App Store version in so long is because the beta version doesn’t have all of the moderation tools yet (due to it being a full rewrite), and we don’t want to take those tools away from moderators who use Mlem.

    • youngbullhowling@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      So far went with voyager. Haven’t reviewed the others. Mlem/arctic any better? Need to died something for loops and pixelfied for the other people I know

      • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Mlem is like voyager but better imo, arctic looks really good atlo, they are all mostly similar, I like arctics feed but im used to mlem, arctic can show photos and vids in formats that sometimes dont work in voyager or mlem rnow

        • youngbullhowling@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Just checked Arctic and noticed that there are a lot more text features as well compared to Voyager… It’s the little things as these apps are all start to come together.

          • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            yeah voyager is developing for multiple platforms tho, android and ios

  • serfraser@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m back after a year away. My two favourite niche interests (wrestling & fantasy books) still don’t have hugely active communities but I’ll start pitching in again with some lukewarm takes.

      • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Reddit prob got big because they used bots to fudge their upvote numbers to make their site look more active than it is, I’m saying this with no evidence lol

  • gi1242@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?

    if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic

    • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      idk if there is, apps only seem to search communities, users, and servers, still new tho