Comment on Tumblr to join fediverse

flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Sergio@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The article seems well-written, except that:

  the fediverse — the open social web powered by the protocol ActivityPub also used by Mastodon, Threads, Flipboard, and others.

  Seriously? Flipboard has like one thousand Monthly Active Users and we have like 50 times that, but we’re like “and others” lel… I guess they didn’t mention Pixelfed either tho and it’s a lot “hotter”…

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  • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That article is intended for casual readers. These people might be more familiar with Flipboard than Lemmy or Pixelfed.

    The same way that people are familiar with Blackberry or Nokia despite none of them even reach mainstream market anymore.

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Last thing we need is casual news readers joining. This is the dark souls of the fediverse and I am the undead burg twink invader.

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Flipboard is how you can federate BBC and a bunch of legit news networks. They’re pretty important imho

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  • Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    One thing at least is that when you search “Reddit alternatives”, most articles that I came across seemed to make out like Lemmy is the best option in terms of amount of users and not being advertised explicitly as a “free speech and censorship free platform”, which we all know really means “bigots are welcome here.” In fact when I was searching Reddit alternatives, it seemed to me that Lemmy is really the only option.

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