Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m not sure anyone mentions bluesky as an alternative to big tech.

  Pretty sure they only mention it as an alternative to musk/X.

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  • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This right here, the everyday person doesn’t know what federation is let alone believes that it’s an alternative to confederated platforms. They see it as a better Twitter that’s not run by Musk and honestly that’s all they need to know.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Holy shit! A sane rational Lemmy user in the /c/Fediverse community! Someone who sees the bigger picture, and isn’t just reacting to this small niche area of the internet.

      Look, I love Lemmy, but I can’t sit by and act like just because something is a better service, and makes logical sense to use, that people will ever have even heard of it. That’s not how PEOPLE work. Yes, Lemmy is better than reddit. But no, Lemmy will not overtake reddit in usercount maybe in my lifetime. Unless reddit gets sold, and then plummets into death like myspace did. Then Lemmy wins by default, but it’s not the same thing.

      And everyone (well, everyone but you I guess) most people on this community seems to miss all that.

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      • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think the uphill battle here is that a good amount of the active users on lemmy are probably very tech savvy. The percentage of us who aren’t, are doing it wrong in their eyes.

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They haven’t gone through the churn of corporate emshittification enough yet I’d have to guess.

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    • commander@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      and honestly that’s all they need to know.

      Err… why are we suggesting the corporate-owned and centralized bluesky over Mastodon then?

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• zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The thing that it really has going for itself is that it simply isn’t twitter. And Muskler made sure that’s a huge deal.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Using it myself, this is technically true but also it’s literally Twitter pre-takeover-- like a fork all the tolerable people started using. You’ve got your George Takei and your Stephen King, etc, so it’s what left of center normies can enjoy without being a little too far (like us, here).

    If I’m being honest, I prefer to mix the two communities because a little too much Fediverse can make you go crazy, plus I spread Lemmy ideology there cause someone’s gotta bring up class warfare and Linux, right?

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh I agree. I’m just not there because twitter was never my thing. Keep up the fediverse propaganda, comrade.

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