• Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 months ago

    LinkedIn.

    It’s one of the last social media I have. Benefits outweigh cons, but I still would like to get rid of it

  • daltotron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    All of em, really. I don’t see much of a reason why the vast majority of platforms wouldn’t benefit from it, except for maybe an argument around it allowing the creation of larger and larger echo chambers, but that’s probably fine as long as it’s managed to only be to a certain degree.

  • tacosomuch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Meetup / events, the cultural calendar of physical events should be free from platforms! Facebook used to be good for this in its heyday, because of its wide adoption, but now they are chasing «engagement» and ad revenue, and is no longer a good tool for public, so the timelime is full of crap etc.

    • kath@kbin.social
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      6 months ago

      Is there even a genealogy site that is not owned by the Genealogical Mafia i.e. Ancestry? AFAIK WikiTree hasn’t sold out yet.

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Twitter.

    I know this is the “wrong answer” but I had always used Twitter to keep tabs on local government agencies, newspapers, reporters, restaurants, bars, events, concerts, sports teams, etc. Not to mention all the accounts that pertain to my hobby’s and interests.

    I’ve used bird.makeup but it’s not reliable if it works at all. Some agencies, like our transit system and streets department, will post on one thing on their website and something else on instagram or twitter (many have stopped using twitter after the api change). RSS is fine for some things but not everything. I haven’t been using instagram for years because of advertising and the algorithmic timeline. I at least need lists.

    Really, the right answer here for my needs is that all these groups need to join the fediverse. I just don’t see that happening.

    Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I know this is the “wrong answer” but I have always used Twitter to keep tabs on local government agencies, newspapers, reporters, restaurants, bars, events, concerts, sports teams, etc. Not to mention all the accounts that pertain to my hobby’s and interests.

      Yes, it’s a problem. Even several open source projects use Tw(X)tter as their main outlet. A few years ago one project even used it to share an important security update! They must have posted it in their Discourse forum as well but I don’t visit that often. I stumbled upon the important post by coincidence with Nitter (Nitter is declared dead since a few months). Since then, lesson learned, I use some notification.

      Really, the right answer here for my needs is that all these groups need to join the fediverse. I just don’t see that happening.

      Agreed. Some people stay there because “everyone is there”, or their favorite VIPs are there, or people stay there because they think they should fight the bad things that happened to it from within :/ Sad.

      Or maybe I should say I wish the “existing platform” of my city government would start their own instance.

      That would be cool.Governments, at least in the country where I live in, need to make an effort to be transparent and reach out to their citizens without creating insurmountable barriers.Start an on-line petition and getting people to sign it, and share with the local government ?

      • adONis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        yeah, it’s such a shame that people think X is the right place to share important updates.

        It fucking absolutely is NOT!

        Yesterday I went to look up Trakts X profile to see whether there are issues with their API. X shows posts from 2020-2023, but nothing from 2024 even though there was a tweet from 2 days ago.

        X is dead and should officially be declared as such.

        • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
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          7 months ago

          I don’t think it’s anywhere near dead when anyone you’d want to hear from still uses it. It’s amazing the amount of times I’m looking for an update for something and if you don’t have an X account you won’t be getting that information as it’s blocked from view without one. I still haven’t recreated an account but I’ve came close a few times or used what few nitters are left.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      7 months ago

      You know that PeerTube has a build-in video import tool ? It can import Youtube / Dailymotion / Vimeo channels or playlists. https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync I think that downloading YouTube videos is technically illegal unless you have been the uploader of the videos. But with PeerTube you can create private channels which you could share with friends or maybe even paid subscribers I guess.

      • Krafting@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Oh I didn’t know that! Do you know any open instance that has this feature enabled ?

        • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Don’t know. I guess you could ask the admin of friendly instances, or self-hosted or ask friends to self-host. Self-hosting a PeerTube server is not that difficult and “Big Storage” on-line is not that expensive anymore.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I agree, peer tube’s biggest issues so far besides the storage or the fact that there are almost no peer tube servers which offer user accounts (which isn’t needed explicitly to watch videos but makes the experience much better), and also the fact that there aren’t really any good apps to use it with that aren’t outdated or abandoned.

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I really want to love peertube and use it but the transition is hard. I feel bad for “wasting” server space and compute and when I view the video on peertube I’m making my favorite creators gain less traction on YouTube which directly affects their income and growth.

      • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Some of them can be supported through Patreon and they’re getting way more money than through YouTube.

        But it’s through that it lacks content and it’s also difficult to find content on peertube.

          • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            7 months ago

            Give what you can and if you can’t it’s also okay.

            I’m only giving 1$ a month to the Linux Experiment, but, according to him, that’s way more than what he would get from me watching his videos on YouTube.

            I’m also donating 100$ a year to many open source projects, but I might have to give up because of financial troubles too…

          • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            7 months ago

            I still have to really try it, but last time I typed « PlayStation » and there was almost no result…maybe it’s just the lack of content though…

              • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                6 months ago

                I was talking about channels, reviewing games and so on.

                Not the odd homemade video…

                Something that you could follow long term to keep being informed, like IGN or gamespot for instance.

          • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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            7 months ago

            It needs a recommendation algorithm. Search is simply not enough to find videos you may like.

            Search would be enough if it had the content library of YouTube.

      • radiant_bloom@lemm.eeEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Honestly, I’m murdering the productivity of every channel I watch anyways with uBlock origin and sponsorBlock, so I don’t think it’d be much worse

      • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.d.thewooskeys.comEnglish
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        7 months ago

        They could choose a different business model to get revenue from their videos that doesn’t rely on google or the current model where personal privacy is the commodity. It could also be a difficult transition. Is it worth it to them? To you?

        • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Shame that all those business models require US centric payment processors to actually get paid.

          I’m not in the US and my choices for actually getting money into my bank account are PayPal or Stripe, neither of which have policies that permit the distribution of electronic data or alternatively donations without being a registered charity.

          Neither has dispute resolution procedures that go beyond “you broke the rules and we’re keeping your money”, and “sorry, that was a fraudulent card and we’re taking the money back, plus a fee, and the fraudster keeps the goods”, and finally “our word is final and we’re now closing your account without disclosing why”.

          So, yeah, good luck with that.

          Source: I’ve spent months looking for alternatives and as far as I can tell, they just don’t exist.

  • eodur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Strava. Sharing workouts, leader boards with friends, challenging friends on goals. Maybe even badges.

  • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Forums, facebook groups (but not owned by meta), Letterboxd, Amazon (without amazon)

    • matcha_addict@lemy.lolEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Lemmy is kinda close to forums and groups. But I do agree I prefer that format over the Reddit-like format.

    • Blum0108@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      What is the practical difference between that and what we have here? Genuinely curious.

    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It’s not really that fundamentally different from the idea of Lemmy, the interface is just different but the idea of having communities and posts in the communities is the same.

      The thing that would be tricky and would probably have the most friction would be anonymous posting since that’s where things get really ugly regarding moderation and user conduct, since a good amount are just going to be spammers and many others will be trolls and malicious users.

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 months ago

          Yeah that would be very difficult to implement safely, and probably wouldn’t be worth the effort since the Federated model means that signing up for an account somewhere on the Fediverse is much easier already.

          Anonymous posting might have been a necessary evil on the early internet before you had all these Federated servers, but nowadays having other servers fills the role of granting easier access since you can sign up to another one where that process may be easier.

          • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            7 months ago

            The only way of anonymously posting I could imagine on a federated image board would be to use an account on some other Fediverse platform (e.g. Mastodon, Firefish, Mbin, etc.) and to have the name of the account hidden for anonymous posts. That could maybe work, idk. Would be pretty cool tho

    • Mocha@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I wish they had an official presence in the Fediverse.

      I kind of miss seeing the tweets on the homepage and think to myself that Mastodon or one of its forked versions would be the ideal replacement.