A Request to the Fediverse Community

[email protected]

They posted the same on reddit. It's an open letter to humans.

[email protected]

Not using other social media annymore. Lemmy was my first introduction to the fediverse. Now I am also using Mastodon and experiment with a hubzilla hub on my homeserver.

Banana

I mean if the account is deleted it's no longer tied (to the puboic at least), and I'm not about to fool myself into thinking my internet use is actually secure.

[email protected]

I was confused by #1 before I got a grasp of Lemmy then I realized lemmy.world is the largest instance and I can just sign up here.

JackbyDev

How do you know your accounts weren't part of a ban wave? It doesn't necessarily mean they linked them through your phone.

JackbyDev

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.

Then just directly recommend specific, general purpose instances to people.

JackbyDev

I think you're drastically underestimating how even small steps like that can tune a ton of people out. If they're only sort of on the fence about it it might be enough to make it not worth it. Or maybe they'll think they'll check later but never get around to it.

[email protected]

I'd love to see nothing but PeerTube links in the fediverse. YouTube has become almost unusable for me.

Sjmarf

I use Ice Cubes for Mastodon.

I'm one of the Mlem developers; I'm glad you're enjoying it You could also consider trying the Mlem beta if you haven't already. It's about 8 months' worth of development ahead of the App Store version. The reason why we haven't updated the App Store version in so long is because the beta version doesn't have all of the moderation tools yet (due to it being a full rewrite), and we don't want to take those tools away from moderators who use Mlem.

OpenStars

I have never felt more heard - I am so glad that you did not delete this.:-)

ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed

[email protected] (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

Sail free in the high seas!

Also, I want to mention Briar it's a peer-to-peer communications app that allows communications not only by internet (via tor), but also bluetooth, wifi. There are no servers, all the data on right on your device. Its available for Android, and there's also desktop clients. You can form a mesh network of your fellow revolutionaries, the oppressors can shut down the internet, but not the flow of information. If everyone in a protest added each other as contacts on Briar on their phone, you can theretically have a Briar forum that can share information on any law enforcemement or military movements, even during an internet shutdown. (beware of possible phone backdoors tho, maybe run Graphene OS or something)

There are already Briar Public Forums, but they don't have much activity (there's like 1 post/comment every other month, and that's it). But its like a secret corner of the internet. If we get more people to use it, we can potentially have a peer-to-peer network instead of only being decentralized, but still having servers.

[email protected]

It's not saying "everyone come to lemmy" it's saying "everyone post more an reinvigorate communities".

OpenStars

It's normal to want to avoid being abused and insulted for, say, having an opinion which is marginally different to the in-group consensus.

Sadly, I see that irl as well - perhaps text social media enhances the effect, maybe by virtue of being anonymous, but it's definitely not an effect solely restricted to here.

Source: me who it just happened to an hour ago.

OpenStars

It strongly depends where you go here - e.g. [email protected] was too extreme even for Reddit, so yeah the average here is WAY more chill, but we also have even more extremes here than they did there, if that makes sense.

[email protected]

Fuck Reddit man. Fuck Reddit into the ground. Lemmy is getting there, feels like early Reddit. Comments are still removed from lemmy

[email protected]

You're gonna regret asking me to post more but... your wish is my command! 🪄

Flying Squid

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn’t of enough substance to be worth anyone’s time.

God damn! I'm trying my hardest here!

OpenStars

Blaze has put in a ton of work simplifying the former, and while the latter isn't strictly only related to Lemmy.world, many other servers are much faster.

e.g. click on https://discuss.online/, see how it shows All (rather than Local) by default (that's an issue with some), and Active. Click posts, see how fast images load, read the pinned posts and imagine how quickly the admin responds.

THEN if someone likes it, join. Many Redditors are in the USA, where discuss.online is also, so it's a great match.

There are other instances, but showcasing that one is a great way to help guide people to what Lemmy is all about.

[email protected]

Yep. Not letting abuse get to you is really hard. I'm constantly surprised by this, being a fairly resilient person and not very sociable (to put things politely). I can only imagine what it must be like for more gregarious people. Hardly surprising that people are scared to speak up. So good for you for saying what you wanted to say, there was value in that.

[email protected]

any youtube alternatives in the fediverse? I know about peertube.