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[-] [email protected] 149 points 1 year ago

Public opinion seems to be souring on all the big corporate social media sites, and I truly think if we're able to get the word out about federated social media platforms, people will jump ship.

Also, it's hard to dislike a platform that isn't showing ads, selling user data, or generally making decisions for the enrichment of shareholders.

[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

It’s so weird, I don’t even notice the lack of ads most of the time (pihole, never leave home, so it’s roughly the same experience I'm used to)

But when I go out? Oh man fediverse is the only site I’ll use because I know it’s safe from ads. The other privacy/user-focus stuff is just a bonus.

(I don’t have any friends around here, so just sort of go out to be out, and usually for food)

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Inevitably there will be a fediverse instance with ads, but whether or not people want to use it will be up to the individual.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

As long as the ads don’t federate in an un-blockable way, they can do as they like. I wouldn’t make an account there, I’d rather donate actual money than have a degraded experience (which for sure works out better for everyone), but I get the drive to monetize.

And they should absolutely -not- be allowed to federate ads, for any reason, since it goes against the vibe. But inevitably there will be “sponsored posts” (probably already are), and I think those instances/users will see themselves fade to oblivion, as long as new users are brought to understand that they could just chip in $2 and never see an ad.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I use Boost and it has ads. But they're ignorable as a banner here and there, not constantly. I can live with that.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Is Boost really that much better than Eternity or Voyager that you put up with ads?

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[-] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

Doin' muh best to shitpost.

You're all welcome, citizens!

Heroic Trumpet Music

Farting sounds

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I'm doing my ~~part~~ fart too!

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I have many, many sovereign citizens to keep us alive.

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[-] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago

Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out. I'm not a "techy" type person (that seems to be some kind of prerequisite) and I barely know how to explain the fediverse to the layman, but I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app) and read enough to give reddit the middle finger and never look back. It's been nice, really. I spend more time outside of the internet now. But I believe in the fediverse, I think it's the right thing to do. I still check up on lemmy daily, but I get much more value and human connection and only spend the time that is appropriate on lemmy instead of endlessly scrolling. Most days I end up in some Wikipedia rabbit hole. Just like the good ol' days. Learning new things, meeting new people. That's what I love about the internet.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

It's what we all loved about the internet I think, before the web become... "that" (looking at the pile of shit the web has become).

But actually it's not the web, not really. It's the big tech platforms that most people seem to think is the internet now. It's sad to watch how people log on to "Facebook" and not the general web anymore. And then Google in front of everything, like a big cancer growth.

Lemmy is not the new internet either I believe. But it's here to show people that something else can exist. As soon as we let advertising in here though, it's over.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed reading this. I came over from reddit when they started banning people for protesting. That showed me that reddit was not what I thought it is.

I‘m a techy person. I run servers for friends and customers, partly with fediverse services on them. Lemmy being one of them. I donate both time and money to lemmy and other services I enjoy and use.

The fediverse is a great thing imo. I hope it succeeds.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gonna be honest, a lot of times I feel like I don't belong here, I'm still figuring things out.

I left reddit when they fucked over Joey (my preferred reddit app)

Are you me? I thought I was relatively tech-savvy, and then I moved to Lemmy. Also, Joey was the best.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's easy to feel that way even if you are a techy. It seems like being minimally neurodivergent is the abnormal here.

That being said, I've been introduced to many different ways of thinking that I wouldn't have gained otherwise. Think of it like you're different, but that's ok because everyone here is different - and that makes them (and you) all the more beautiful for it (especially in the context of idea exchange). In fact, being the different one here will give you the perspective that many of the people who use Lemmy experience simply by existing which, in and of itself, is a valuable thing.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago

Admins. Thank you. Users. Thank you.

Mods?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Too busy abusing their mod powers to enforce their political views in most communities.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

That sounds like me in World News exactly. Excellent assessment.

(I'm even more draconian in Lemmy Shitpost.)

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

This is what Lemmy is all about, right here. Just a good, honest nutsack taking a simple shit.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Ehh. What's the average age around here? I'm guessing it wasn't the youth that migrated from Reddit.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I'm in my 20s, is that considered youth?

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I'm OP and I'm 50 and female.

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

I'm doing my best to look at memes 💪

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Teamwork makes the dream work.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

I still haven’t been able to give up reddit but I have always been a lurker there. Here I’m trying to make a conscious effort to participate in conversations. I’m trying to be positive, kind, and thoughtful because that’s what I want lemmy to be.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

The thing that I love most about Lemmy and the wider Fediverse is the sense of actual community. Many of the users feel like actual people I could meet in real life. It's essentially a digital cafe. Sure as hell not going back to Reddit or those other shit Big Tech sites.

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

What I like about the fedi is I don't care if it's a "success" in the same sense that the closed social media sites have to be. It's not like this project has quarterly profit targets to hit or else it'll have to enshittify or else the investors pull out and we're all screwed because there's no more app.fediverse.com monolith or whatever.

Nah it's just us doing our thing and enjoying ourselves. The activity around here already reached a critical mass a while ago, to the point that there's more content than I could hope to enjoy, so anything from here is vegan gravy.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Just out of curiosity, how much does it cost per month to run a Lemmy instance? Not that I'd want to do that myself, I'm just grateful for our admins that keep Lemmy up and running.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Just trying to take it easy for all those sinners.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Im just here for the memes

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Everyone one of my shitposts is making history

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Hey, shitposts are like manure that helps other posts grow.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I lurk!! But, thanks y'all.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Every minute you use lemmy, spez's penis becomes 1 millimeter smaller

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Thank You, BotM! I migrated here from the corporate social medias as soon as I was aware. I'm still transferring my OC over from IG (not an easy task) to Pixelfed. And I use similar talking points to inform people, often about the very existence of a non-comercial social media. Very few people, maybe 2, since July '23 have even heard of the Fediverse. We shall persist!

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

"the future of social media" reminds me of "the year of the Linux desktop". Like, what does that mean to you?

The most obvious explanation is that you think it will overtake corporate social media entirely. Or even exist anywhere on the same level. But that seems unrealistic.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, but we've been on this stressful ride before, and we know where it ends.

There were lots of attempts at a closed source proprietary Internet protocol. They have all resoundly failed, after looking unbeatable. Some folks still fondly remember the closed Internet protocols like OLE COM, ActiveX, Flash, Cold Fusion, and SilverLight, but few of us miss them. Okay, I do miss Flash games.

Good touchscreen phone operating systems were a "will this ever be matched?" trade secret at Blackberry and Apple. Now the vast majority of phones run open source Android.

Much earlier, most good-enough C compilers were expensive proprietary closed source products. Now I see very little being compiled on anything other than the free and open source GCC. Even most other programming languages and tools are now FOSS, as well. I can't think of much for development that cracks the top 20 that isn't FOSS. JetBrains IDEs stand out as a lone closed source hold-out.

Open standards always win, in the end.

The desktop computing default is honestly way overdue to switch to FOSS. That's why it's the year of the Linux desktop.

The Fediverse is here to stay, and is all that'll be left in a couple decades. But in the meantime, it's cozy!

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

That means everything I am doing is becoming trendy, which makes no sense.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t know. Sounds like communism 🙃

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