Yeah, that was my main criticism of the article, it completely omitted social media.
Also, the author mentions Codeberg as the “developer” of Librewolf, so it seems is not the most tech savvy around.
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adespoton@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Why doesn’t it mention the Fediverse at all???
Seems like they’re advocating using a Fairphone running e/OS, Ecosia as the search engine, LibreWolf as the browser, LibreOffice as the office package, and W for social media?
itsmistermoon@piefed.social 15 hours ago
sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Huh, I wouldn’t say, the article mentioned Codeberg as the developer of Librewolf.
It says:
An even more private (but still free and equally effective) version of Firefox is LibreWolf, which was developed on Codeberg, a German nonprofit.
To be honest this sentence doesn’t make any sense at all: Librewolf wasn’t developed, it is in active development. But it is true that it’s being developed on Codeberg, which still doesn’t convey a lot of information to the reader… I dont know if this article is very helpful at all…
itsmistermoon@piefed.social 4 hours ago
It previously said “by” Codeberg, so the author either catched the error or read someone else pointing out the mistake.
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
It reads like AI slop in my opinion.
br3d@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
There’s a whole section on social media. That’s where they discuss Mastodon and W, among others
itsmistermoon@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I meant it barely touched the surface there when there’s plenty of alternatives, not mentioning it just mixes xitter with facebook, instead of mentioning alternatives for each “category” (ie: instagram / pixelfed, x / mastodon, facebook / friendica, etc.). If you read the articles it seems that there’s almost no choice here.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
And social media is arguably the main thing. The network effects make it sticky but the US has been amazing at exporting it’s culture, social media amplifies that, and right now that culture is a bit fascisty with a hint of freedom stopping regulation of the rich and misleading. That said, but that lens, I’m not really sure Lemmy is a great alternative since it has a lot of people from the US already and I think it wouldn’t scale well (either because of lack of instances, burn out from moderators, or the problems migrating here)
CountVlad47@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Someone once said “don’t let perfection be the enemy of good” … or something like that.
Anyway, my point is it’s good that this kind of stuff is starting to get into mainstream media, even if they don’t go into as much detail as they could.
They might not have wanted to scare people off by giving them too much information all at once, especially things like the Fediverse which even lots of tech savvy people don’t really understand.
morto@piefed.social 15 hours ago
curiously, he didn’t mention linux as well
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Step one to moving to Linux should be switching to open source alternatives to the proprietary software you use while you are still on windows. If all the programs you use are already open source, then switching to Linux is so much easier.
morto@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Maybe the author doesn’t know the fediverse yet. We could try commenting there or maybe contacting him
WesternInfidels@feddit.online 12 hours ago
cabbage@piefed.social 3 hours ago
This is probably a much more efficient “mention of the fediverse” than if the journalist had started trying to explain that there is this federated network of independent social media sites bla bla bla.
The people reading this are looking for something they can understand. I expect naming Mastodon and leaving it to them to check it out will convert more people than if they started trying to explain what it is.
I’m a bit weirded out by all the attention given to w-social.eu by mainstream media, though. First of all it doesn’t exist yet, second we have no reason to believe it will actually be decent, third we have good reason to believe it won’t be.