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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[–] 41 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.

This; I'm so sick of hearing it pop up when people mention alternatives.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    I'm not sure anyone mentions bluesky as an alternative to big tech.

    Pretty sure they only mention it as an alternative to musk/X.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    This right here, the everyday person doesn't know what federation is let alone believes that it's an alternative to federated platforms. They see it as a better Twitter that's not run by Musk and honestly that's all they need to know.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Holy shit! A sane rational Lemmy user in the /c/Fediverse community! Someone who sees the bigger picture, and isn't just reacting to this small niche area of the internet.

    Look, I love Lemmy, but I can't sit by and act like just because something is a better service, and makes logical sense to use, that people will ever have even heard of it. That's not how PEOPLE work. Yes, Lemmy is better than reddit. But no, Lemmy will not overtake reddit in usercount maybe in my lifetime. Unless reddit gets sold, and then plummets into death like myspace did. Then Lemmy wins by default, but it's not the same thing.

    And everyone (well, everyone but you I guess) most people on this community seems to miss all that.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think the uphill battle here is that a good amount of the active users on lemmy are probably very tech savvy. The percentage of us who aren’t, are doing it wrong in their eyes.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Dunno, I like the fact that people here are tech-savvy. My HS guidance counselor said I should always hang out with people that are smarter than I am. That's why I like it here, everypony seems so knowledgable.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fully Agree.

    Mastodon, Lemmy and the likes are all enthusiast platforms in my eyes. Their primary userbase of the more savvy folk who are early adopters. I also believe it's why many don't fully get how complicated the fediverse really is to comprehend. To many the hurtles are just costs of being in the field/having a tech passion, hopefully it will be adopted but like, I still think the UI and general behavior and mechanics of it will be a fairly big roadblock.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    and honestly that’s all they need to know.

    Err... why are we suggesting the corporate-owned and centralized bluesky over Mastodon then?

    Oh right, viral marketing and useful idiots. I shouldn't have expected more.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The thing that it really has going for itself is that it simply isn't twitter. And Muskler made sure that's a huge deal.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Using it myself, this is technically true but also it's literally Twitter pre-takeover-- like a fork all the tolerable people started using. You've got your George Takei and your Stephen King, etc, so it's what left of center normies can enjoy without being a little too far (like us, here).

    If I'm being honest, I prefer to mix the two communities because a little too much Fediverse can make you go crazy, plus I spread Lemmy ideology there cause someone's gotta bring up class warfare and Linux, right?

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