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Mental Outlaw | Lemmy - The FOSS & Federated Reddit Alternative (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In this video I show off some different Lemmy instances and discuss why the lemmyverse and even some individual Lemmy instances can become a better alternative to Reddit.

(via. Odysee)

I dunno how the community collectively feels about Mental Outlaw in sum, but there's content of his that has its way of piquing my interests. He just put up a video showcasing Lemmy, some instances, and the mechanics/interactions between them. Probably old news for many of us, but I think it's always pretty cool to see Lemmy get its mention.

Beehaw specifically got its mention through the video and he briefly touches on Beehaw's defederation from sh.itjust.works. I'm pretty confident he disagrees with the decision, but his opinion and description of things struck me as balanced and respectable enough. I'd wager that a more precise description of the intrigue would likely take as much time as the video itself.

Any thoughts on Mental Outlaw's coverage of either Lemmy in sum or Beehaw? Anyone else seen creators they keep their eyes on give mention of Lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I have not used Odysee for quite some time. Why is the comment sections of the video so filled with terrible opinions. Claiming being blocked federation is bad while they would also do it themself to keep the echo chamber?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nowadays it seems to be filled with extremists and other people that got blocked from popular platforms for various reasons. It used to be a bit better a year ago, with more technical and FOSS oriented channels.

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

Sad, really. We really should try to push Peertube further. They are really struggling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely, the issue is that hosting videos is much more resource demanding than text or photos, thus there are few large instances with enough creators and quality content.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am surprised how (relatively) mild the videos on Peertube are. For some reason I always thought that Peertube was even worse than Odysee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It all depends on the instance. I found some pretty fucked up instances absolutely filled to the brim with conspiracies against people, healthcare and science.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Damn, im reading the comments and its pretty funny. Those guys are mad, they could always just make their own federated hellhole, or i guess stick with 4chan

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, those type of people will be mad at anything. But lets not open the can of worms.

I am extremely sure there is already some instance catered to their thoughts.

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

I think both types of isolation are bad, personally. It's all very divisive and non-constructive. To me it seems very easy to just ignore or block a community I don't like instead of de-federating from the host instance entirely. Idk. It's disturbing to me that that was the route taken to cut off a particular community.

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

Does Lemmy allow for blocking at an instance level single communities? Because I think the profiles should not be blocked from federating, but the communities of an instance dedicated to certain specific things should.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I as a user can go to a community I do not subscribe to and block it. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you are meaning. Either way I find that this is the appropriate measure for anything from spammy/annoying communities to ones that are just toxic. I think we should all be more concerned with curating our experience to what is useful to us instead of worrying about what others can see. Otherwise we begin the creep back towards centralization - which is great until it isn't.

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

I am talking about an instance A federating with not the full second instance B. I asked if A can set to be able to see only a not-whole fraction of B.