Going by comments in the post, the required login is coming in waves, so not all people may notice immediately.
Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there’s even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?
I don’t have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I’d post myself.
Honestly I’ve given up on encouraging people to do things to better themselves. We’ve had open source technology for a very long time. The Fediverse has been pretty mature for a good while now. Xitter and Reddit have been through many rounds of appalling enshittification, not to mention Meta.
RSS is as old as the internet but people overwhelmingly choose Apple News and other dumb shit.
Email is as old as the internet but people overwhelmingly choose corporate platforms like Gmail.
Podcasts are ancient but people overwhelmingly choose to use platforms like Spotify, and worse, YouTube.
People just overwhelmingly make bad decisions, and have been for decades so, yeah, I’m exhausted.
I used to ask people to switch and they would ask “why?” and I would be so appalled that they would even ask the question because, how could you not know any of the litany of reasons to get off this fucking platform?
Sometimes they ask and I explain and then the only thing that changes is that they think I’m a weirdo.
people go where the content is. That’s just the nature of the beast. Like I’m pissed at the reddit mods for kicking me off of reddit more because that’s were 90% of the minecraft community lives, (most of the reason I used reddit in the first place) and less because they got the ass pains for me calling them out on their corporate bootlicking behavior.
Something has been lost over the past 15-20 years. It’s like nobody has the mindset anymore of the world wide web era. Where’s the curiosity. Where’s the discovery. Where’s the malleability to find something new to you and try it. Inertia has locked them into subservience.
The internet flipped upside down. It was new frontier for you to explore. Now you lay there as it spoon feeds you.
People have been quantified into units. So they can be packaged and sold as datasets. They’re boxed into what the ad industry categorizes them as. This person is an Apple News user, reddit user, and Youtube watcher. That user is on Twitter and Facebook. Much more fine grained than just what platforms they use of course. They told the system what they like and the system built a reinforced box around them. And then charge them for an air tube for good measure.
We are far gone from the days where a user would be so excited to post a wall of text about using a thing that another user doesn’t know about. These days the reaction is more likely to be,“Who are? Who sent you?!? What’s your real motive???” Skepticism. Distrust. Paranoia.
Often these days, outright indifference. People know these platforms fuck with their minds. With public conscious. They mould the world we live in. People don’t care. The world chose to be Cypher. They wanted to be plugged into the Matrix.
Though that’s not really a good analogy because outside the system isn’t a desolate landscape. The outside world is still normal.
Exactly. The vast majority know how terrible they are, but continue to subject themselves to it anyway. Why? Lack of self-respect? Unwillingness to explore and learn new things? I don’t get it.
The Fediverse has shown me that what these companies have isn’t anything special, aside from the network. People don’t go there for the software, they go there for the people. But they can’t move the people to new/other software.
sounds like an addiction, people are addicted them.
So while I agree with many of your comments, I would say people who are not computer people don’t know anything about the things that you listed. Sure there’s other email servers than Google, but here’s the thing do people know that? When you buy an Android phone it forces you into a Google login. There’s no other way around it. And then most people just use that because that’s what they know. The same thing with RSS, I would not begin to know where to even find a community that is on RSS. Like what does that even mean? most people don’t know what all of these things that you listed mean. And it’s not because we’re lazy, it’s because those things like Gmail and Reddit are easy to access Before I got IP band from Reddit I had no idea that lemmy or the fediverse existed. I still don’t know how to make a category that I can post on. I have no idea how to make a server, I don’t have the money to buy extra computer stuff to do anything other than use my phone. People who program software and are computer programers understand the back end. Those of us who don’t have any idea of any kind of programming don’t know how to use anything but what is readily available. And yes I’m trying to learn but it’s not easy.
If they cared at all, they would find out.
there are so many podcasts on YT. i do follow 1 or 2, mostly actors of movies/shows thier experiences during thier time on the show. political or news is no-go for many reasons, and if you choose something related to “relationship” it will try to reccomend unwanted things on the feed.