We're RIGHT HERE

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I don't want TikTokers on the Fediverse, thankyouverymuch.

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A site goes to shit when everyone and their grandma hops on it. At the risk of sounding elitist, I would prefer to a part of the userbase that hasn't been Eternal Septembered into the lowest common denominator.

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Fediverse and decentralism confused me initially but then I learned I can just sign up at lemmy.world and use it normally without having to know the backend.

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We've been here the whole time

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Lemmy website is decent for me on mobile and PC alike, what are your complaints?

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I do! Their opinions affect us; the fediverse reduces a social problem.

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you can defederate with groups but gatekeeping the entire fediverse feels wrong

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All right then, keep your secrets. But then let's promote a normie instance to Grandma so she doesn't get brainwashed.

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What mobile app do you use?

I've tried a few, none of them are great for various reasons.
My favourite is Voyer

The up-vote buttons are hidden on comments. Very annoying

The default website is terrible, it looks like the social media app I built in highschool for a project. You have to click into every post to see it properly,

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So be it. Tiktok is one big slop pool of content. The fediverse doesnt have to be. Tiktok needs to be. I'm okay with advocating for that separation, sorry.

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The internet use to be about discovery, not convinience. The reason big companies like TikTok can exploit people so well is because the barrier of entry is so low and people would rather get their content quick than to have any involvement in how it works. When someone created a fediverse or a server, it's not plug and play. Work goes into that, so yeah, if you want simplicity, stay on X and Facebook and Insta. If you want control and more clarity about how these protocols work, welcome.

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The internet use to be about discovery, not convinience. The reason big companies like TikTok can exploit people so well is because the barrier of entry is so low and people would rather get their content quick than to have any involvement in how it works. When someone created a fediverse or a server, it's not plug and play. Work goes into that, so yeah, if you want simplicity, stay on X and Facebook and Insta. If you want control and more clarity about how these protocols work, welcome.

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This anti-China sentiment is just dumb our politicians are just holding everything back, when we should be working with China for the betterment of the planet. They've always been responsible for making technology accessible, and every day.

Amon

I get it now

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passed on turning Germany and Japan into colonies

I occasionally see job ads in the UK that require US citizenship.

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I don't really understand this seeing as you're commenting this on a post from your own instance. Therefore, in an ironic sort of way, it seems like people within your own instance are against the fleeting whims of mainstream platforms as well. So, I agree with your counterpart: you are not owed a lower barrier of entry if the entire idea of companies not manipulating your algorithms and selling your data is for it to be community-driven effort. And so, it is not a lot to ask people to learn how things work so they may be able to service themselves, or even past that knowlegde forward.

No matter how you slice it, decentralized networks require a lot of work and maybe, the people who put their computers and hardware out there to make it possible just want people in that circle to appreciate the work put into it. Not hop on their instance because it's quote, "easy".

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Turns out normalizing mass surveillance makes people not care about being spied on

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Do Puerto Ricans get represented in US politics yet or do they just not count as a colony because we are in the wrong century?

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The TikTok algorithm shows you what you want to see. My TikTok algorithm was history, math, and language learning content.

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Also our developers are too poor to ge oligarchs.