Bumped into an interesting thread on https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/37822 about the ethics of using invidious vs. peertube. I've used invidious extensively hiostircally. However, I take the point that supporting an alternative video sharing/content creator model removes ethical concerns about tools like invidious. The content just isn't as good :/ That said, going to donate to peertube to support the future ✊ https://joinpeertube.org/roadmap #peertube #youtube #invidious
cursing, lots of it.
There are 72 fucking apps from Samsung on my phone that I cannot remove. About 60 of those fucking apps are either duplicates of something I use a third-party app for or simply something I don't want to fucking use like Facebook or TikTok.
WHY ARE THESE ON MY PHONE? Samsung fuck, goddamn shit fuck.
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@realcaseyrollins Just found out after some digging that your mstdn.social account is taken down.
Is feddit.social safe? Since it's run by that same stux guy. I'm trying to find a #lemmy instance that's pro-freespeech but not too extremist
Though it's important I've always wanted an instance that's general and something I could say to my friends. #GameLiberty is a name I can write off as a gaming-focused instance, but many would probably already yikes at a site named Free Speech E X T R E M I S T, and same (albeit for different reasons) for intentionally niche instances like smugloli, blobcat, absturztau and everything else recommended on that #fuckgab website that led me to this.
I guess this really just runs to the point of why the #fediverse won't gain mass adoption without a single instance dominating and succeeding on its own - it's completely contradictory. Even #email is giants-controlled, with literally all but a few of my classmates on #gmail!
So I was wrong about my #Pleroma first impressions - it's not a 'lite' version of #Mastodon and my other account can access this mastodon FE that I prefer with just a single click. That's cool - Mastodon is just a way to get people into the #fediverse but I want to dissociate eventually from those anti-freespeech censors
Why the Fediverse is significant, beside privacy
Because big corporations are not forever.
Say about them what you will, but there IS a value in social media, they do satisfy the need, they do scratch that ancient itch of human beings to hear each other and be heard. They do it quite perversely, as a side-effect to filling their shareholders' pockets, but still, as a matter of fact.
The corporations though, do close down for all kinds of reasons.
There was a time before Twitter. Someday Facebook will disappear. Someday, YouTube will go dark.
The Fediverse, in this sense, is a toolkit, that will allow people to rebuild the Internet as we know and love it today in the future, when most companies have gone extinct.
The Internet is not a thing that "just is", it's "what people do". The Fediverse recognizes and embraces this fluid, dynamic nature: every now and then there's new servers that pop up and old that ones go down. It's not really a big deal around here. And it's... beautiful?
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