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 :)
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thank you for this post, did not know about the public forums list 😉
briar comes with calyxos, and I’ve been considering it. The shame is I don’t message all that much, and mostly use messagers for resources or distribution (can’t believe so much support is moving to discord)
If you’re privacy & security centered do NOT go with Calyx. They still use several g**gle services underneath it all. Graphene is the way to go, and no they are not affiliated with Copperhead (The one who proudly states they work with Raytheon) TLDR copperhead tried to take over Graphene but failed.
Also regarding rumors of it being a FBI honeypot, the feds advertised the backdoored phone /OS as being Graphene itself - or at the very least based on it in some way. It is not.
Just remember to use a oem unlocked android device. Carrier locked phones are often times luck-based in terms of getting it OEM unlocked. Often times they are literally impossible to get unlocked. Support CAN do it and HAVE THE TOOLS to unlock it for you but more often then not… they won’t.
Don’t get me wrong, Calyx without micro g (F-Droid + Obtainium) is a fantastic option plus it’s compatible with a wide range of devices -just not as secure is all.
It’s ironic, using a g**gle phone for privacy. Different strokes for different folks.
to be fair, I set up calyx a while ago, back when i was only at the beginning of my privacy journey, and still thought i might need google services. Though I’ll absolutely be giving graphene a try when I can!
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 😊
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!
It’s a wonderful picture, thank you :) Sometimes I wish that I had saved old photos of mine before they’re lost to time.
Couldn’t agree more.
I think one that can be done is to create a pinned FAQ post in Reddit on the fediverse sub Reddit. I have seen so many questions popping up lately with a lot of potential users that seem confused.
If I had a Reddit account, I would absolutely try doing that. Unfortunately, I think I’m gonna have to hope someone does it for me.
I have one, i will see to it.
<3
thank you!
Hear, hear!
I think 90% of my posts are deleted before sending because I just know that someone somewhere will find a way to be mad about it
But OK - here is a post that I would usually have deleted :)
I’ve taken on the mantra of “Participate, but be respectful.” That’s led me to post a few times where I normally wouldn’t.
Realize that there is nothing wrong with pissing someone off because they disagree with you. It’s only wrong if you pissed them off because of how you said it, or if you are closed minded about being proven wrong.
And in the real world, a down vote doesn’t matter.
beautiful mantra, it’s philosophies like that which serve to build a kinder, more respectful world!
I’ve also been posting less after managing to upset someone. We can have a club. The shy posters club.
You’re not shy, you’re just a normally adjusted human.
It’s normal to want to avoid being abused and insulted for, say, having an opinion which is marginally different to the in-group consensus. But unfortunately that’s what happens when we post on text-based social media. Apparently the medium does something to people’s minds, turning them into nasty vindictive unpleasant versions of themselves.
I’m a pretty self-confident person in real life and even I think twice about posting anything here that contradicts the prevailing groupthink. The inevitable insults and abuse and mockery are sometimes just not worth it.
It’s normal to want to avoid being abused and insulted for, say, having an opinion which is marginally different to the in-group consensus.
Sadly, I see that irl as well - perhaps text social media enhances the effect, maybe by virtue of being anonymous, but it’s definitely not an effect solely restricted to here.😢
Source: me who it just happened to an hour ago.😑
Yep. Not letting abuse get to you is really hard. I’m constantly surprised by this, being a fairly resilient person and not very sociable (to put things politely). I can only imagine what it must be like for more gregarious people. Hardly surprising that people are scared to speak up. So good for you for saying what you wanted to say, there was value in that.
I’ve had abuse for posting a short story that validated the group think. Several times.
Personally, I have hope that if a larger variety of people are posting and commenting (typical lurkers and such) then hopefully the echo chamber aggression will weaken a little, and hopefully foster a positive and friendly community. I’m trying to lead by example :)
Refreshing optimism!
if a larger variety of people are posting and commenting (typical lurkers and such) then hopefully the echo chamber aggression will weaken a little
Unfortunately I’m not sure the hope is warranted. Putting a lot of people with different views in front of each other, over text, does not, in general, by default, seem to go that well. At least not going by the experience of the first 30 years of the social internet. You tend to get the worst aspect of human group dynamics and speech-policing without the self-moderation that comes with in-person contact - i.e. the effect of audible voices, and visible faces and body language.
I’m not a complete pessimist or I wouldn’t be here. But I think these issues can only be solved by activist moderation that enforces rules with a light touch while remaining tolerant and always assuming good faith. And, of course, that kind of moderation is time-consuming and very, very hard. It’s a skill that hardly any communities have access to. But it is at least a reasonable goal.
I see where you’re coming from, historically the internet and large communities tend to foster that kind of aggression. I, for one, will be striving to build a positive environment though, and just maybe, we’ll see those fruits lead into a brighter future :). I myself am applying for some moderator positions to help take up that effort!
That’s great news. Good luck.
There’s a lot more aggressive unpleasant people. Or bots. That’s the scary things these days, we don’t know what’s real anymore. People we talk to online or see. If it’s fake trumped up hysteria.
Or even takes pictures of videos.
And I don’t see it getting any better.
If we can ensure that all bots are always identifiable as such, i.e. that none of them are successfully passing themselves off as people, then this problem is mitigated quite a lot. In theory that’s feasible. We’re hardly even trying right now.
How’d you tell if you’re chatting to a bot?
Ai a pretty convincing now
Regulation, of course. Unlabeled bot on your platform? $100,000 fine. We’re not completely helpless.
It’s this the law or something you’d hope would happen?
I’ve only just managed to overcome my membership in the shy posters club haha! Hey, keep a seat warm for me while I’m away, okay?
As Someone Somewhere, I urge you to post more.
I cannot believe this account is two years old and not made just for this comment haha.
Oh, I’ve had the name for a lot longer than that.
I bow down to your sense of comedic timing
A genuine username checks out moment - excellent
The trick, plumbercraic, is not minding that they will be mad.
Over the years I’ve learned it’s ok to ignore if it seems like someone wants to pick a fight. Not everything has to be a debate, and no it doesn’t make you look weak. You just got better shit to do than argue with strangers on the internet. :)
I do that quite a lot too
thats reddit, ppl hate way less here, id prime myself to argue before I made a comment on reddit, made me a more argumentative person
It strongly depends where you go here - e.g. !ChapoTrapHouse@hexbear.net was too extreme even for Reddit, so yeah the average here is WAY more chill, but we also have even more extremes here than they did there, if that makes sense.
I get this. I used to use Threads and someone got very angry at me cause I said Labour, supposedly the left wing party in the UK, are “upsetting the right people”, I should have clarified that I don’t think that they are doing a good job, but never mind.
That’s a horrible take and you should feel bad.
But I’m a stranger on the Internet and probably a moron so it’s ok to not take me seriously or respond to me.
Just remember that the people getting mad at you are not deleting any of their posts.
I have never felt more heard - I am so glad that you did not delete this.:-)
Thank you :), and I’ll just let you know, that this comment brought a smile to my face. I’m proud of you.
OMG really? How COULD you…
Neglect to offer your valuable opinion. Hey, you’re a human and have valuable things to say. Haters gon hate. Fuck 'em.
I got you rosahaj! I’ll try to be better this year!
glad to hear it Oofnik!
lurk no longer
🙌
One of us! One of us! ONE OF US!
One. Of. US!!
Lurk No More
All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, …
I think I’m fully maxxed out.
Just took a look and wow, I think you might be right, haha. Be proud, you are the fediverse’s best soldier. 🏅
God bless you 🫡
I’m curious, how did you get those stats?
Thunder on Android. Its the best Lemmy app, if only it was less buggy :)
I use Eternity, personally (feels good after having used Infinity so long), just how good is Thunder now?
Eternity hasn’t been updated for two months, so i’d steer clear if possible.
Thunder is amazing, but there’s ONE bug that drives me insane. Some images have weird dimensions that you have to click on to fix.
Example:
I’ll look into it, thanks!
Is there an open ticket for the dev to know?
Only this, https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/issues/1617 and it’s been inactive
And that was after I’d been on kbin.social for six months.
The hero we need
They’re squeezing water from a stone here DX
say, I hear you do something similar, Pug Jesus.
Just wanted to pop in and say, I am so glad so many of you are taking this to heart! I am sitting here with a genuine smile on my face, which for reference NEVER happens. Thank you everyone!
Make a nice poster that encourages people to not just lurk, or dig one up if there’s an old post. Post it weekly in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
I think I just might!
Hello,
Feel free to join !casualconversation@lemm.ee !
A set of relaxed communities: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20504960
just hopped into a few, thanks for the recommendations!
Happy to help!
Y’know what, here I am! This is such a genuine request.
Thank you, friend! This post may very well be the tipping point for many Lemmings/Fediversers, myself included.
And I’m so glad to see you here! I sure hope you’re right, but the fact that I’m responding to you alone shows just how right you are!
I go through a cycle for this. I leave Reddit because I hate it. And then I go here and well it’s quite obvious it’s a certain type of people who are willing to jump through hoops and use the fediverse. I find most of the opinions here to be a little bit too extreme for my taste. I just want to discuss football (soccer) and tech…
But I agree with you. It only feels empty because we all decide to not hit “post”.
I’m exactly the same, here’s hoping we’ll pave the way for many more like us, hey?
Reddit was not much different in the beginning. It was kinda of weird and had a super Linux tech nerd culture with a circle jerky political culture. There was kind of a nice time between that and now, even though it was still niche. Hopefully we can see something like that again but without all the private interest ruining it in the end. But yeah, I’m with you.
Small instance owner here. All are welcome. We have one really busy community here, and a few others that are just getting going that you might find interesting. You like World of Warships? The Last of Us? St. Louis Battlehawks? Abandoned Buildings?
You’ll notice some of these communities are a ghost town. Images are broken and there’s a rat eating pizza. So step up. Avoid the large, overwhelmed, weirld-political instances and give us little guys a chance.
I’ll begin by introducing myself. Hi! I am oleorun, named after the recently deceased Bob Uecker’s Baseball Hall of Fame speech. My instance, https://real.lemmy.fan/, is known for the !weirdnews@real.lemmy.fan community, but we have more to offer. !aviation@real.lemmy.fan , a college radio station, !wsup@real.lemmy.fan , and more communities waiting to be joined, and built, and best of all there’s no ads, no donation requests, just pure love of a federated instance that thrives on niceness.
I’d be real happy for you to join us.
oleorun@real.lemmy.fan
I cannot express how much respect I hold for instance owners, you’re doing something great! Maybe one day I’ll follow in your footsteps (when I step up from small game servers :P). Say, would those dead communities qualify for a post in c/abandonedarchitecture?
I am trying to. I just found about lemmy today.
Can someone recommend me some other stuff?
is Loops out now? I was wondering when that’d come around.
Apparently the official app was released out of beta recently if I’m not mistaken.
It’s been out for a while. And to quote Blaze
!loops@midwest.social could definitely benefit from some nice reposts!
There’s only one person posting there, I think it’s the mod. I’m sure they’d appreciate some support.
Never got very into short-form content, but I’ll give it some consideration!
Me neither, but when I’m scrolling some videos look interesting.
Recommend Lemmy communities, or other Fediverse alternatives (like Mastodon as a replacement for Twitter, the same way Lemmy replaces Reddit)?
yes and I don’t mind you can mention other Fediverse alternatives
I run a few history communities myself
!historyartifacts@lemmy.world to share or admire pieces of the past - swords, armor, jewelry, or pieces of everyday life
!historyporn@lemmy.world for photographs of the past (or film)
!historyillustrations@lemmy.world for drawings and the sort of the past
!historyruins@lemmy.world for photos of old ruins, if you enjoy seeing such things
And a few history meme communities with them
!historymemes@lemmy.world for memes about history of all sorts, no restrictions!
!roughromanmemes@lemmy.world for memes about the GLORIOUS ROMAN EMPIRE
!shermanposting@lemmy.world for posts about the US Civil War and how slaver scum deserved their defeat
More generally, there’s:
!adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com for memes about ADHD and related disorders. A lot of comorbidity there.
!animearmor@lemm.ee for anime pics of cool weapons and armor
!askhistorians@lemmy.world if you have any questions on random bits of history you’ve been wondering about
!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world for the ever-popular video game Baldur’s Gate 3
!dogs@lemmy.world for pics of your own dogs or random dogs you’ve found online. Precious creatures!
!cat@lemmy.world for the same, but for cats
!forgottenweapons@lemmy.world if you like old or obscure firearms
!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com for Lord of the Rings memes
!lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world if you want some wholesome posts to take your mind off things or brighten your day.
!militarymoe@ani.social if you like anime girls in uniform
!noncredibledefense@lemmy.world or !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works for tongue-in-cheek militaria shitposting
!soulslike@lemmy.zip for talk about Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, etc
!wlw_memes@lemmy.world for memes by/about/for girls who love girls
!rpgmemes@ttrpg.network for memes about tabletop RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons
!memes@lemmy.world or !memes@sopuli.xyz for memes in general (not much difference between the communities, just whichever you prefer - or both)
!grimdank@lemmy.world for Warhammer/40K memes or memes about similar tabletop games
!196@lemmy.world for random posts that don’t go anywhere else. Just put ‘rule’ in the title - as the ‘rule’ is that you must post before you leave!
Nice list
Despite my seniority around these parts (first started an interest in lemmy around 2022) I’m not too tied into the community around here. I’d reccomend just subscribing to some interesting large communities, communities around your interests and whatever community would be best for whatever pops into your mind! If you’d like, feel free to message me and we can throw around ideas of what could be right for you!
On one hand yeah! But on the other, I’m not fully sure we want the Reddit chain of comments that add nothing to the conversation?
You aren’t entirely wrong, but I feel it could help build an appearance of high activity, which would help attract people. Also; many people wish to contribute but stifle the words before they can come out of their mouth, and I’m hoping a post like this could be the push they needed.
It’s a fair call, I think I’ll push send more often from now on!
Honestly half the reason I don’t post these days is more not wanting to feed LLMs/dox myself further,. It that’s a whole other can of worms
yeah, the web-scraping is getting insane, but I think in my case, the motivation to contribute has finally overcome my data preserving tenancies.
It’s a fair call, I think I’ll push send more often from now on!
Honestly half the reason I don’t post these days is more not wanting to feed LLMs/dox myself further, but that’s a whole other can of worms to worry about
