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A Request to the Fediverse Community (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I agree. And I cant rightfully feel that way and not contribute more so here's to turning a new leaf

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I’m guilty of that. I posted to Reddit today, but not Lemmy. I’ve been telling my friends to switch to federated social media, but I still find myself slipping back to Reddit. Not because I like Reddit better but because they have more content or I already know where to look for specific content. But I’m going to try and post more. Thanks for the reminder!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

be the change you want to see in the world! sincerely, the new owner and moderator of [email protected] and [email protected], respectively

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

rule

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

I kinda started using lemmy less lately. I shall fix that!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Yes sir/ma'am/person!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ok!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Love that sentiment. And I love the fediverse. Thanks to every developer and every one of us using this. I deleted Reddit in 2022 and never looked back, thanks to all of you. I use my phone a little less, and YouTube is the only thing I still use that’s not federated.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would agree to this but with one caveat Let's try to be better than Reddit. These days, Reddit and to some degree let me also has become a circle jerk of closed minds (on all sides of any issue). When confronted with a position they disagree with, people are far too quick to write the person off as a racist, statist, Nazi, anarchist, commie, etc. Rather than considering the merit of the person statement. Let's be better than that. Let's all be better than that.

Having a closed mind is easy. It's lazy. It gets you to that hit of dopamine faster, you tell someone off and hit post and you feel like you've done good. But most of the time you haven't. You've done nothing to persuade them of your viewpoint, or enhance the discussion for others.

That's not to say nobody's wrong. There's plenty of people who are wrong about every issue. But tell them why they're wrong. Have a little good faith, assume that just maybe the person on the other end of the thread has good intentions, also wants the world to succeed and society to be great, they just think their view will help make that happen better. So rather than calling them an idiot, tell them why you're right and your ideas are better. Engage with them.

That's how Reddit used to be. Not recently, I'm talking way back in the early days before the digg migration. It was a place for intelligent people to have reasoned discussions. Let's make lemmy more like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I dislike the constant reddit comparisson.

Lets just try to be our own thing. Not like reddit and also not unlike reddit just be lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It would be great to have a fediverse service for Meetup. Bending Spoons is aggressively enshittifying the original site, definitely ripe for disruption.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i have never used meetup, does mobilizon seem a decent fit? https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know this is the wrong thing to focus on, but federated social media is really lacking sex appeal. Like the technology powering it is so cool, but many of the clients (especially the defaults) are ugly.

I’m not saying form over function, but I find well-designed + functional apps really enjoyable to use. I want to be the solution. I’m writing my own Lemmy client and I really hope I can deliver on the sex appeal in addition to an amazing user experience.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I joined Lemmy to find something like this. Have you seen Smoke Signal? It's an events site built on AT Protocol. Has promise but doesn't have the discussion threading that Meetup has.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

nice cake

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

any youtube alternatives in the fediverse? I know about peertube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I'm afraid YouTube is a different beast entirely when it comes to replacing it, so I'm going to have to branch out on what 'alternative' means.

loops.video is a tiktok-esque shortform video service on the fediverse owncast.online is a federated livestreaming platform, like twitch funkwhale.audio is the fediverse's answer to music streaming. I've also heard good things about radiofreefedi.net and of course you've already heard of peertube.tv

but when it comes to YouTube, absolutely nothing holds a real candle to the variety anf quality of it's content, so you might want to look into alternatives such as Dropout.tv, Nebula, Odyssee (I have heard very bad things about Odyssee, but including for variety), or frontends like Invidious, Freetube, and Newpipe.

Hope this helps :)

PS: I have a post asking for peertube video reccomendations, which might have a comment or two with something of interest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

God damn! I'm trying my hardest here!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

You don't even have to comment anything of substance, I just make shitty jokes all the time and say dumb shit. Just don't be a dick when you're doing it.