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  • I completely agree that everyone should use free software. Not for free of course but by donating or straight up paying for it.

    That aside, I think your stance is the „vindictive vegan“ approach. While I‘m a newly found fan of veganism, I strongly dislike the „you’re either with us or against us“ approach.

    I personally run a matrix server (which is foss, even if it sounds like its second class foss to you) and have it bridged to discord, whatsapp and signal. Why? Because that helps me convert people.

    Their reasons for joining matrix:

    • You can use one app (fluffychat in my case) instead of four apps
    • People on the other platforms miss out if the bridge goes down which shows them its matrix first. With mautrix bridges, the bridge very rarely goes down btw
    • their chats will be accessible for them forever if they wish, with backups they can take whenever they like
    • no chance the EU breaks their encryption
    • no chance for discord, meta or anyone else to sell their data (of course not in the bridged room)

    I think there are better albeit more manipulative ways to get people to convert instead of punching them on the nose. Certain matrix only rooms do help, provided they have no equivalent on the other side.

    Anyway, have a good one.












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    24 days ago

    You are missing the point.

    If lucifer was the only one having ice cream and you wanted ice cream, you would have to either go to lucifer or make your own (or ask someone to do it for you).

    This is what the fediverse is about. Regaining control of our media. Your point that it is in any way too lacking to join or invest time into is self defeating as you and many others are needed to get it to that point.

    So I‘m saying either accept that your work is needed to get any non billionaire owned/non corporate platform to work or stop pretending you care about your data.


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    25 days ago

    „The content“ is there. Its just the addiction inducing, never ending dopamine that doesnt flow as freely which is great.

    If you follow the topics that are most prevalent on the fedi (eg freedom, activism, technology, diversity) you will not run out unless you scroll for many hours a day, which is suggests you find yourself a hobby.

    Also, the self fulfilling prophecy of „the fediverse is too small, I go to big platform“ will keep the fediverse small.

    Be the change you want to see.




  • I‘d say I‘ve fully embraced the fediverse for over a year, running half a dozen instances for many fediverse services.

    The discoverability is indeed an issue for many services but the worst on peertube. It actually has great content but nobody sees it due to it not being properly suggested.

    On lemmy vs reddit I can proudly say a lot of topics have great content and its not easy to run out of it if you subscribe to varied communities. One big problem is how spoiled the users of commercial socials are. The amount of people there is of course insane compared to here so someone used to heroine (x, facebook and reddit) will always feel withdrawal on lemmy, mastodon and such.

    Imo, we need to keep making strong, compelling cases for the fediverse, against the corpoverse and increase our technical arsenal. Peertube needs clients for every platform and a central discovery (for example instances.joinpeertube.org).

    We also need more straightforward installation procedures so more people can host their own. Of course non tech folks will have a hard time either way but a „fire and forget“ compose file or ansible playbook, ideally next to one another like with awesome selfhosted on github.