A Request to the Fediverse Community

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can’t remember the name

Invidious

Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

Invidious (invidious.io)

But nowadays I would rather recommend https://grayjay.app/ or https://freetubeapp.io/

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https://www.lemmyapps.com/ shows the ratings

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But can we still be scenical? Since social media doesn't fulfill a need perse, I was thinking maybe my scenical comments with misspelled words at wrongly advised times would help. It helps me relieve work related stress. Is that how you spell scenical? Scenical, when you cause a scene. No I mean Cynical! Yeah that one!

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Probably [email protected]

Not the most active, but didn't find anything better

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For 3d, there is [email protected]

You might want to have a look at [email protected], it's a community for people who build communities

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That's the one

Banana

Since all this shit started happening I've deleted all the social media apps on my phone and I've started using lemmy more. Gonna switch my YouTube shit over to peertube when I can.

Intending to actually delete my accounts in the coming weeks too. Bye bye, 13 year old reddit account. Nobody gonna miss ya.

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YouTube is a bit of an issue as unlike the others there's a lot of content and information you can't get elsewhere.

I've been considering using a proxy to scrape and download subscriptions and add them to a personal server. Probably not practical to do for everything though with how much space that would be.

At the very least see if there's a wrapper that can strip out a lot of content and just show the stuff I want to watch VS all the nonsense they fire at you.

atro_city

Maybe in the coming 4 years people will finally understand why handing over everything to corps isn't great. Whether they'll do anything with that understanding is questionable though. The amount of "but it's so easy" and "I'm just one person" doomerism is fantastic.

Coelacanth

Piped bot I believe it was called?

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Over the years I've learned it's ok to ignore if it seems like someone wants to pick a fight. Not everything has to be a debate, and no it doesn't make you look weak. You just got better shit to do than argue with strangers on the internet.

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This is what I'm doing! Subscribe to anything and everything I might even have the smallest interest in

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Ok. I'll start commenting more literally right now.

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Bye bye, 13 year old reddit account.

don't forget to delete your comments there!

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I don't think advertising here is necessary

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I already use fediverse an unhealthy amount, if I do more I might die.

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I'm a fediverse supporter (obviously, that's why I'm here), however what you're looking for requires a critical mass of users that the fediverse (at least the Lemmy side of it) will never achieve as long as two very critical problems persist:

sign up is confusing. People are used to clicking "create an account," inputting a user name, password, and maybe an email, and then BAM they're a user. I realize the whole instance thing is the entire point, but no one wants nor expects to have to do significant research and make a decision about how they want to interact with a social media site before they've even started using it.
the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of "click the image then do something else while it loads," which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I've stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won't.

And no, these aren't "features not bugs" unless you want to keep the site small and homogenous.

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you aren't social mediaing right unless it makes you bleed

go $fsck yourself

The trick, plumbercraic, is not minding that they will be mad.

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I just deleted most of my other social media apps and am trying to lean into the fediverse and nostr as much as I can.