Happy #GlobalSwitchDay
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It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes.
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And yet it gets repeated (and upvoted) in every thread.
Acts like a psyop to make us do nothing, so I will call it out more and you should too.
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Exactly. No one pays for it because it's free
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Acts like a psyop to make us do nothing, so I will call it out more and you should too.
That's Lemmy in a nutshell. Guillotine and Luigi memes are constantly repeated because they know that no one's actually going to act on that stuff, but any time anyone suggests a practical means to weaken the oligopoly people come out of the woodwork to shut it down.
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Exactly. No one pays for it because it's free
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Matrix. Seems to be the hottest thing for group chats. Also what a lot of open source projects that used IRC before are switching to (or, if not switching, are providing a bridge for).
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FB Marketplace --> Flohmarkt is missing!
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Woo! Made one of first steps of switching today!
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For Mastodon, the people you follow will also need to switch. This is even harder than getting your friends to switch.
Well I switched from the birdsite to Mastodon because a) I like to shout in the void and b) see what other people are shouting into the void. Doesn't really ultimately matter who's doing the shouting. People who go to social media exclusively for news and updates are a bit strange when you really think about it. You've got to have the shout in you.
(I'm only being half facetious here)
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For Mastodon, the people you follow will also need to switch. This is even harder than getting your friends to switch.
Well I switched from the birdsite to Mastodon because a) I like to shout in the void and b) see what other people are shouting into the void. Doesn't really ultimately matter who's doing the shouting. People who go to social media exclusively for news and updates are a bit strange when you really think about it. You've got to have the shout in you.
(I'm only being half facetious here)
Lol shouting in the void is a funny way to describe it. I mean... why even need the fediverse. I can shout at my mirror.
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Mastodons have been extinct for millennia and don't come up in conversation often. Lemmy and Peertube aren't words at all. Loops is a pretty common word, though, so it needs something extra if you want people to know what you're talking about.
The problem is the moment there is another instance then loops.video won't even make sense as that is just the name of the instance and not the application.
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Here Revolt is suggested as an alternative to Discord which looks quite similar.
Oregon Pacifist :mastodonoops: (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I have a self-hosted Revolt instance (Discord alternative). The primary server can be found via this link: https://199x.chat/invite/K6pFvcy3 Like Discord, anyone can create their own server and invite others. I find it to be more user-friendly than Matrix.
Retro Gaiden (retro-gaiden.com)
But Revolt isn't federated is it? It wouldn't fit here any more than signal.
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So, is Matrix like halfway between Whatsapp and Discord? I downloaded it and I still don't know much about it. I felt like it was more Whatsapp-like
I think in recent years the lines have been blurred but I would say Matrix is more "Discord-like" because it is account-centric rather than phone-centric and is designed more around communities than 1:1 IM's to replace texting.
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I agree. If it's not libre from the start, we should not trust it. The term "open source" is ambigious, they could put it under some other license where they can just go closed source again.
That seems a little extreme. I would maybe agree if 1) it wasn't being made by the guy who has already got an AGPL project in Pixelfed and 2) it was on open signups. Whilst software is invite-only or closed entirely I don't really see a problem in it not being open-sourced.
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Oh no, I wasn't aware, sorry for you
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revolt.chat
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In my case I deleted instagram, instead of whatsapp I'm going to Matrix (I'll see who I get there), I changed Reddit for Lemmy and I'm trying to find an active Peertube instance that allows for account creation, live, and uploading videos
yeah I'll be honest, peertube is nowhere near a youtube replacement
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Damm, didn't know that, good to know
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