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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] 5 points 3 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
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I did start a community for 3d (3dee), dropshipping (dropshipping lol), and chairs (deskchairs) since those were some communities I used on reddit that I didn't see here. Made a general one for 3d since its still small here and spreading the programs out means less visibility and posts on each community imo. Haven't posted yet and neither has anyone else tho.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

wish I could upvote this a thousand times

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot of times I'll write out a comment and end up deleting it. Most times it's because I feel like it's something that's already been said or not worth reading but I'll try to be less of a lurker.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the exact same boat. But I kind of realized, if I want to see a bigger fediverse, I'll have to help build it up. As the classic saying goes, you can lead a horse to water; but first there's gotta be water. So thank you for taking up the cause of building this lake :)

actually i don't think that's the saying

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Well it is now that you opened the spigot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m in, lets this be my late new year resolution

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

maybe this can make up for me not making one this year haha

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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.

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

welcome back, and good luck!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

[email protected] could definitely benefit from some nice reposts!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've always been a lurker, but I started being active on Fedi, and I like it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

hoping to join you there, friend

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's a wonderful picture, thank you :) Sometimes I wish that I had saved old photos of mine before they're lost to time.

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