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Something to help lead people to the Fediverse (thelemmy.club)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip

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I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day https://old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1ijmkc0/make_the_switch_away_from_meta/

Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc. If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.

I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.

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[-] mauvehed@feddit.online 1 points 4 days ago

I saw this image on Reddit.

And now I am here.

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Welcome!!

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

Has anyone tried Pleroma or Misskey who can share their experience/opinion?

Just trying to get an idea of what's out there.

[-] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Well, pleroma is kind of like a blend between 2010 imageboards and mastodon, it's kinda small and nice depending on which instance you are. Its used by a lot of personal website thanks to its low weight, and is popular among small independant web creators. You'll rarely see instance with more than 100 users. Biggest one i've found is https://udongein.xyz/ .

Misskey is more or less the same thing, but mainly focused on a japanese audience from what i've seen, with a flashy DUI and a large focus on user customisation with profile picture stickers, statuses, colored fonts, badges, and custom emojis. Biggest misskey instance i've found is misskey.io .

Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world (except misskey on some cases for... japanese reasons). Their smallness also tend to favor circlejerking behavior, but i guess that's an inner principle of the world wide web. They are worth the try.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

That's interesting, thanks!

Both are fun, but they are more focused on communities/sharing than politics/news/real world

That's okay, because those niches seem already filled on the fediverse anyway. I was mostly curious because it seems most of the social media formats have alternatives on the fediverse, except for the classic facebook/myspace where it was originally mostly about keeping up with friends and people you know in real life, joining interest groups, buying/selling used items on marketplace, etc.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago

I don't feel like loops is ready for this exposure. Not yet.

If folks can't install it through the regular stores or even f droid then it may risk always being the complicated and nerdy alternative.

Kind of like Linux has problems getting out of the very techy reputation that it used to have

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[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 week ago

No Lemmy?

[-] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 15 hours ago

Fuck Dessalines and Nutomic. Not for their politics, but because they are petty power hungry assholes.

[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PieFed > Lemmy (In my opinion)

I switched to PieFed a while ago, it's the same thing but better (IMO)
It also doesn't have any of the controversy that comes with Lemmy, and the UX is a lot better (IMO)

It also has quite a few nice features that Lemmy lacks. Try out both, see which you like.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 45 points 1 week ago

Damn. Trashing Lemmy on Lemmy.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

And getting upvoted for it by other piefed users

[-] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 week ago

The person you’re replying to is actually coming here from Piefed, à la the magic of the fediverse.

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[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 28 points 1 week ago

If you're on mobile you probably won't really notice much of a difference, the mobile apps are yet to implement the new features.

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 52 points 1 week ago

80% the people on TT, YT and IG are there to follow content creators that are only on those platforms to make money.

Until creators can easily make money on Fediverse platforms, they'll always play second fiddle to closed platforms that market and share profits, no matter how crappy the returns are.

[-] Krakova@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago

Maybe it’s just me, but the influencer type content creators are part of what I’m fleeing from in the mainstream social media options. The internet is better without them. The gamification and monitization leads to enshittification. Reddit really started going to shit when the same people’s posts were always on the front page, and then you had the same people modding and gaming their communities to push it. I personally would hate if that happened to fediverse alternatives.

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[-] blinfabian@feddit.nl 46 points 1 week ago

wtf? you mean reddit -> lemmy right?

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[-] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago

Piefed over Lemmy?

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[-] Darkness343@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Piefed? Wasn't the replacement Lemmy?

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[+] Canyon201@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

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[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

You know, when people say piefed is like reddit, I don't know if they realize it's exactly like reddit.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social -1 points 6 days ago

I don't see how those things in total make it like Reddit. For one, Reddit is overrun by AI slop in many areas. Piefed actively tries to mitigate it.

[-] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Sure, but going down this list, most seems arbitrary and not based on data to mitigate slop bots.

Social credit scores are why I bailed on reddit. Not karma, but their "Contributor quality score" that demands people grind comments to keep the account alive.

[-] Skavau@piefed.social -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Social credit scores are why I bailed on reddit. Not karma, but their “Contributor quality score” that demands people grind comments to keep the account alive.

I already addressed this regarding Piefed here.

Trolls/spammers etc are serious problems on sites like Lemmy and Piefed (and on Reddit). If you’re a new account and you’ve managed to get -100 reputation that quickly, it’s not a good sign. If and as the Fediverse grows, instance owners are going to need more observation tools to catch this type of stuff.

Whilst having +++ karma is obviously not worth note, a new account on -100 is.

[-] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world -5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Every account has a Social Credit Score.

Keep in mind ostentatious posturing about alleged belief in free speech e.g. hyperbolic use of terms like "Social Credit Score" or repetition of common copytext/keywords "echo chamber" is not universally perceived as a good thing.

If you've ever lived in a country where people understand the value of free speech (without constant tedious self-aggrandization on this topic) this stuff comes off as childish.

When I say "understanding the value of free speech", I mean the understanding that free speech includes the ability to choose your moderation policies depending on context.

He has hardcoded links to his ideology into the sidebar

Again, framing this issue as "promotion of ideology" is not going to fly.

Believe it or not, but having a sidebar with "Misinformation & disinformation" is not as big of a thing as you think it is. I would even argue that "COVID skeptics" wouldn't give a shit about it because they actually understand the meaning of the term "promotion of ideology".

You're welcome to assume I am misinformed, I hate free speech or I am being malicious. Whatever works, I am just sharing a different perspective (from someone who lived in the US and does not find American-style freedom polemics to be in the least convincing).

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[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 31 points 1 week ago

My god, thank you for putting the names under the logos. I've seen too many people just put the logos without any text because it's "clean", but then the viewers have no idea what to search for lol

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[-] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 29 points 1 week ago

Lots of people are upset with the censorship happening on TikTok and are uninstalling TikTok, this image might be useful to show to them.