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Signal is better as a centralized alternative and Matrix is better as a decentralized alternative. We don't need another messenger.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2025
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My experience is that nobody cares about privacy, moral issues or anything that might be an issue in the future. They only care about convenience, distraction and whatever their peer group is doing. So the "attention" this is getting is never going to reach the spineless mass audience.
Why does it have to be about privacy? Why can't it be about not centralizing power into a handful of for-profit entities?
This is where „… or anything that might be an issue in the future“ comes in.
Crypto chat! Crypto pics! Crypto vids! Nostr! Crypto!
I hope you're mean Crypto as in Cryptography
Big ups to @[email protected] for his contributions and congrats to him being mentioned in the article.
I've been on ethical alternatives for social media for a while and the one thing missing is just everyone I know
I've been getting into the fediverse for less than a month, and it seems the biggest barrier for a newcomer like me is settling on a select few out of many clients/apps. One question I think a lot of people migrating want to know is (and I open this up to anyone):
What's the fewest signups needed if we want to enjoy all of the federated replacements to corporate social media? It sounds like each client demands its own account but I'm wondering where/if there's overlap, because…
My Lemmy account already worked on movim before i discovered movim. That's really cool but I don't know 100% how that worked (same community server, I think), and how many other apps/clients offer that.
Movim is XMPP and I don't know how that overlaps with ActivityPub, but I want to better understand so that I know how few accounts are necessary so I can micro and macro blog, share original/repost images videos and music, have group communities, and have a personal page to post things on as opposed to thread/conversations/forum posts and not have to manage ten separate accounts if I can help it
So get them on there.
"Hey dummies, this here is the place that isn't trying to fuck us, let's move it over."
For me the way bigger issue is clunkiness. The fediverse needs a massive push for UI, usability, intuitiveness. Not having that will turn people away, but part of what will get it to happen is more people showing up and saying "stop making this otherwise objective improvement so janky that I second guess coming here in the first place." Maybe a few will be inspired to help, if they have the skills.
To everybody working on the fediverse in any capacity: thank you. You are building a digital Noah's Ark for the future.
Takes time. Spread the message. I joined Instagram in 2017 by pure FOMO. Let's create FOMO for the Fediverse by speaking about it over and over.
Heads up @[email protected] the creator of these apps refuses to open source the projects stating (Loops):
Not until it's stable
Anyone who's followed any project of any kind knows that this is just a formal way of saying they just won't do it.
Not only is it not truly OSS, but he's a bit of dick. Like weirdly so. Banning people for reverse engineering the API, creating a poll on whether or not ads should be introduced (only to 180 on the matter claiming the poll was a joke but also emphasizing that the poll was in favor of ads)
On the plus side he dislikes Trump, so there's that I guess.
In any case I highly recommend people read this comment and the sources linked:
I think the weirdest thing I ever saw him do was discuss meeting with Meta when they were working on Threads, get called out for it so he made a post somehow distancing himself from it and saying something along the lines of, "C'mon, guys; I'd never cozy up to Meta," and then, when Threads started federating, posted a screenshot of being able to see a post from a Threads account from PixelFed and gushing about how incredible this was.
Dude is suspect, for real; glad to see I'm not the only one getting that.
EDIT: just read through what you linked to and wow; that's so much worse than I originally thought. That's an inane degree of unprofessionalism.
And the ads... There is a correlation there I'm sure.
Yvan eht noij!
No mention of Lemmy. Hardly a mention of Mastodon. The leading image is all the oligarch apps. I'm not impressed.
It's Forbes - if they don't use an image in the thumbnail of a thing people know, they might as well not use anything. It's normie-facing.
Hitching on the wagon that Pixelfed is leading is good. There's a lot of talk even from those who don't care about FOSS, or Fediverse projects. Let's give some credit and let things slide so the whole can succeed.
This right here.
Look at the objective. The objective is to kill corporate sponsered social media. Well what better way to do that then by normalizing non corporate social media in the minds of the masses?
Yeah, I don't mind Pixelfed getting attention at all. It's just that I don't trust Forbes, and this article seems to want to muddy the waters.
Can you guys help me: I have Facebook and instagram which isn't great. Never got twitter or tiktok and I'm very glad about that. If I get bluesky will I end up using instagram and Facebook less or just get addicted to another regretful thing? What's it actually like?
I joined Pixelfed yesterday, the Instagram alternative. I wasn't really active on IG and haven't logged in in years, but Pixelfed seems solid. The glaring issue though is that none of my friends use it, so it's just a personal photo for now, but hopefully that will change.
I tried to create an account days ago and never got a confirmation email, which server did you make your account?
Metapixl and signup was instant for me.
Metapixl gang, unite!
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