Submitted 2 weeks ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world
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1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Done. I thought it was going to be difficult leaving YouTube but then they blocked new pipe which was my YT crutch. I don’t know what they were thinking I was going to do but it was not re installing their app.
Newpipe works fine for me, have you updated it?
PipePipe has never let me down yet. In case you still need to interact with YouTube.
It started to just error out on every video. Some people suggest to revert a couple of versions. But I simply gave up. There’s no anything there that I need.
Try Greyjay for YouTube
For things that you’re using by yourself, sure, it’s doable. However, for content creation, it’s pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don’t have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.
Practical example: I’m a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn’t depend on this, but I’m still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they’ll copy them over and they’ll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).
Wtf is piefed? I mean, I’m searching for it now, I’ve just never heard of it.
Another Reddit-like software that reads the Fediverse like Mbin. I’m speaking to you from Piefed.
I’ve never used it but apparently people like it, but it’s got some pretty interesting development choices, I’ll just leave it like that.
It’s like Lemmy, but it can interact with Mastodon and has some other features that Lemmy lacks. It’s pretty cool, only reason I don’t use it is I’m happy on my instance.
The Dbzer0 folk also run a piefed instance, Anarchist.nexus, if you’d prefer to be using piefed with everything else the same.
So where lemmy fits?
instead of Piefed :)
I enjoy lemmy so much!
Do you really want the world to join here? I don’t think you do. A lot of the world is anti trans, anti woke or whatever they want to call it. I’m pretty open minded but the Marxist purists who continuously shout down differing opinions get really old sometimes.
Elsewhere in this thread it is said that Lemmy makers have “backwards principles” and trans would be better served by “piefed”.
Elsewhere in same thread, Lemmy creators are “trans tankies”.
who is in charge of these claims and how do they reach these conclusions? I want access to the Lemmy/Piefed tankie-trans wars, I must be in wrong subs
I noticed that too. I clearly don’t know what the fuck is going on here.
That’s entirely possible, as it’s closer to being the very public conflicts of like a dozen people. You could have blocked one user and inadvertantly insulated yourself from almost all of it.
Lets make February a switch month. It is impossible to switch in one day
Yes, you have one month time to switch and then on the first sunday of the next month you should talk about your switch with someone or post it somewhere. That’s the idea of #DIDit.
Loops is mid. The community is pretty inactive, and the iOS build is quite buggy and lacking.
It only released onto the AppStore 3 days ago. I’d argue they deserve some time to get it right.
There’s an organized effort by somebody to disparage Dan Supernault. I would take anything negative you’ve heard about him, or Loops or Pixelfed with a big grain of salt. They even have a Discord channel where the plot ways to sew poison about him. It’s nuts !!!
All due respect to Mastodon but BlueSky is way more viable right now.
But BlueSky doesn’t support the fediverse yet, isn’t it?
Agreed and activitypub is great for creating a indie web kind of feel but it’s just a flawed model that brings the power dynamics of Reddit mods but with 0 checks to counteract it.
mbin should be on there too IMO. similar to Lemmy but it federates properly with microblog stuff.
UX is everything.
Because I don’t want to give people more descion fatigue I picked the one I felt had the best UX
the ux is dependent on the app or webapp (usually tied to an instance) you are using, and mbin is the same ux as Lemmy like 90% of the time. there is only one mobile app (Interstellar) but its no worse than most Lemmy apps. i think the better federation alone would be enough to make it more popular if Lemmy wasnt the only thing being recommended for threads.
Maybe I am just noob at using it. But calling pixelfed a substitution to instagram, is maybe just a little reach… Pixelfed I found buggy, slow and dead community wise? Anyone to prove me wrong?
Is there a voyager equivalent for piefed?
Voyager works great on PieFed, it doesn’t yet have all the new PieFed features, but it works great.
I honestly think next time we should switch Mastodon out for something else.
We’ve already given Reddit users enough chances to try out Mastodon, we should see if the general Reddit users accept something else better. But I’m not experienced with microblogging at all, it’s not my thing
What about streaming?
Peertube or Owncast
that’s peertube too
Like a twitch alternative?
You can stream on peertube. Never tried it though.
sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 2 weeks ago
Can we self host loops yet? I’ve been holding out on that one. Not that I use tiktok but I would use loops and could probably get my wife to jump.