It’s brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)

    • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I signed up today. I never liked Twitter but I will give it a try. Steam (PC gaming platform) is a member so that’s a plus for me.

    • rayyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Exactly! All a person has to do is to look around - the right buys up all popular media platforms and converts them to propaganda outlets.

    • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Why bluesky instead of mastodon? It’s like saying lemmy.world is going to replace reddit instead of the Lemmy platform.

      Are you just commenting how the people who use something like twitter are eager to be herded like sheep into the next walled garden?

      Are you part of the bluesky viral marketing campaign to make it artificially seem like it’s “already won”?

      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Why bluesky instead of mastodon?

        Because there is only so much oxygen in the room, and corporate ventures like Bluesky seem to come into really exciting DIY community spaces that are creating amazing things and pull the oxygen out of the room while never quite delivering on what they are promising… or seeming to promise… and in the mean time the projects that originally created the innovative energy in the space are lost in the noise.

        I mean… see basically the entire early history of the commercialization of personal computers for endless repetitions of this pattern.

        Remember we are not the customers of corporate social media companies, we are the raw husks they extract value from through surveillance capitalism and ads/paid content.

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I’m wondering this too People are hyped about bluesky but it is the same corpo bullshit that Twitter is. I mean it is literally by the same dude. Why fold?,

        • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Bizarre that you and that other guy thought “will become the next Twitter” was some sort of praise. It’s not.

          • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            I think it’s more bizarre that you think “same corpo bullshit that Twitter is” is some kind of praise.

            • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              4 months ago

              If you don’t agree with the person above you, maybe don’t start your comment with

              I’m wondering this too.

              Accusing people of being shills for commenting that bluesky is going to become (shitty) like twitter is out of pocket.

        • redacted2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Didnt Dorsey already walk from it and gave the reason that it is headed the same way twitter is. Bluesky is being pushed by capitalists because it is a for profit company just like twitter and facebook.

      • Uri@infosec.pubEnglish
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        4 months ago

        When I said bluesky will be the next Twitter did I said Twitter is a good place. Twitter is now bullshit.

    • unknown1234_5@kbin.earth
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      4 months ago

      mastodon is already the next twitter, bluesky is just a direct copy of it with nothing keeping it from going the same way. mastodon is open source (can’t be corpoed), federated (can talk to other platforms/instances so being on a small one doesn’t hurt anything), and most importantly, uses a protocol that doesn’t make self-hosting impossible due to storage requirements.

  • AidsKitty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Cool, everybody can build these companies up so that they can launch their IPOs and be controlled by a new board of directors fresh from wall street. It will all be so different.

  • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won’t face the same problems old social media did.

      Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.

      BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that’s true. However with their structure, a central relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn’t truly decentralized. Right now BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance.

      BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech. There is more technical discussion on if it’s even possible to have a decentralized BlueSky and if it’s all just talk while they gather users.

      My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they’re promising, but I’m not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Bluesky is what happens when someone with a corporate mindset wants to make something new and good. Mastodon happens when hobbyists get together and make something. Ive heard BlueSky has a board of people in charge to make sure it doesn’t end up like twitter. Exactly what one would expect a company to do. Make sure something doesnt go wrong? Put a few people in charge. Mastodon just has the whole community. I may be wrong here as I dont use either. Right now Im just wondering what will happen when BlueSkys provider comes knocking with the hosting bill. As mass social media migrations are rare, its just a shame people are leaving twitter for another big tech site instead of something more community grown.

      • lepinkainen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        For me the advantage of Bluesky is that I can own my identity. I can reserve [email protected] and use that, without having to run my own instance.

        With Mastodon I’d have to put up a full-ass server instance and worry about federation etc just to have my “own” identity instead of [email protected] or something

      • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        from what i understand, a decentralized bluesky is nothing for an enduser at all.

        TL;DR: the cost for an enduser to run a bluesky instance will soon be prohibitive because of the amount of storage needed owed to its shared heap architecture. but what it does is to provide a “credible exit” - if users lose trust or the company shutters, there’s nothing in the way of another organisation picking up the mantle and continue from there on.

      • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do

        Sounds like bullshit for useful idiots that don’t know what they’re talking about.

    • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There’s a viral marketing campaign going on right now to herd the twitter sheep to the next rich-person’s platform. That’s why we keep seeing useful idiots say “bluesky” instead of “Mastodon.”

  • Rhoeri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m sure he’s going to be facing lawsuits from Краснов and Wormtongue.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I feel like the DNC are being pushed into a blindspot for the general public.

    All Bernie has done is go around to speak at different events, and he is far from the only politician to do so.

    • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s what the DNC wants. They want to only be seen as the “lesser evil” to people like trump.

      They genuinely have no interest in helping the working class, because they’re not a part of it.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Socialized healthcare, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich is not “the lesser evil” it’s fucking good. It’s blatantly a force of great good that we keep snubbing and blaming for no reason at all.

        What we should be doing is giving them majorities and supermajorities and praising them for the great work they do.

        • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          They don’t care about doing any of that, though. They only make promises to get elected and reneg on everything once in office.

          Did any of that happen while Biden was in office? Didn’t think so. It’s because he’s a stooge propped up by the ruling class to make people like you think he has your interests at hand. He doesn’t. Establishment democrats do not want to raise taxes on the wealthy. That’s a progressive agenda.

              • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                4 months ago

                In 1995 until 2002 they attempted to ban large campaign contributions and SUCCEEDED until it was struck down in 2010 by a conservative split SCOTUS decision 5-4 in Citizens United

                In 2013 they used the caucusing IND supermajority to vote for public option healthcare coverage and it lost by 1 vote (the IND betrayed us) so instead we got Medicaid Expansion which combined with Childrens Health Insurance Program payed for the medical costs of 79 Million Americans currently.

                The previous Tax Plan was written and passed by the GOP after 2016 elections, and it expires THIS YEAR meaning the GOP get to write the next tax plan, too. Can you guess what Kamala Harris’ tax plan was? It was to lower taxes for earners below 400k, tax unrealized gains for the rich, raise taxes for the wealthy in general.

                • commander@lemmings.worldEnglish
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                  4 months ago

                  If democrats really wanted to reduce the disparity in wealth, why would they avoid nominating Bernie twice?

                  It was to lower taxes for earners below 400k, tax unrealized gains for the extremely rich, raise taxes for the wealthy in general.

                  I’ve seen this one before! The only part that “gets through” are the tax cuts for those making >$100k per year!

                  This is why establishment democrats don’t want people like Bernie. They’re part of the problem and want to keep profiting off of it.

  • shortrounddev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Would like to get my family on Signal. I deleted my facebook account and now we use various other chat apps that I don’t quite like

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’ve never understood why people just can’t send messages through text. Like why do they need a special app in order to do it.

      I don’t use Facebook myself and my family members just started texting me and honestly it’s so much easier

      Don’t get me wrong, I definitely think that signal is more secure. I just don’t understand why people just install another app in order to communicate with their family, just let them know you’re available through text

      • Alloi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        i imagine its because text messages are saved by your provider and can be used or accessed by law enforcement even if deleted. but that may or may not be an issue for most people swapping recipes or talking to their family about normal every day stuff.

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Yeah I believe that, the people I have on my signal are generally ones that are worried that the cops are going to track them or something. I fully agree that privacy is important, unfortunately my family and the general public care is significantly less

      • shortrounddev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        SMS is a pain in the ass. iOS users aren’t using SMS, they’re using a proprietary system which is inaccessible to android users. Occasionally a 1-on-1 text works with RCS but it’s janky

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          IOS has had native RCS since they launched IOS 18 back in like August/September-ish, I haven’t had much issue with support from IOS to Android RCS side, but I’m not sure what my family in Florida use for their iphones, I expect older models might struggle. I have however had issues with communicating with my mom, but I believe it’s because she doesn’t understand that when she has RCS enabled, and she turns off data, it wants to try using RCS, then fails, and then falls-back to SMS, which for some reason Samsung Messages struggles with.

          Personally speaking though, my S20 hasen’t had any issues with RCS period, its always been other devices not actually sending proceeding to error and then the person not noticing it so therefore not retrying

      • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        SMS is incredibly antiquated as soon as you want to do anything multimedia, or heck sending an SMS longer than 144 characters.

        My mother received a video over SMS the other day and it legitimately looked like it was filmed on a Nokia 6310.

        I’ve encouraged my family to use Signal to replace SMS and it functions really well as an SMS upgrade. It’s more secure, private, supports sending decent quality multimedia, the interface is simplistic, it has formatting, does video calls well, and you can send a long message without it being a hacked together string of 5 messages.

        From both a security and usability perspective, it wins out on SMS in my opinion.

        Edit: there’s also the nightmare of group chats with SMS. I hate when extended family try to use it

        • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Don’t get me wrong, I agree with everything you’ve said here.

          SMS and MMS are an antique technology, I can’t argue that. But it’s not going to change the fact that my family is not going to install another messaging app on their device in order to talk to me. They’re going to text me or call me anyway so therefore there’s no point, and hopefully with the improvements on the RCS standard the issues that have occurred with SMS and MMS will go away.

          As is I have four different messaging apps on my phone ignoring my messages app, signal (which I can count on one hand the amount of my friends that have an account), Discord which the majority of my online friends are on, and less than a handful of my relatives are on. Telegram which I mostly have for artists, and Revolt which I really should uninstall but like I really want that project to go somewhere.

          My family is almost exclusively on Facebook messenger, I do not use Facebook Messenger, sms/rcs is the only system that my relatives and I both have, and they’re not about to install another app, to talk to one person which would be me.

          So yes I fully agree with everything you’ve stated there, 100%. But it’s a perfect example of how on paper it sounds amazing but in practice it doesn’t work. At the end of the day my family is going to text me regardless if I tell them that I’m on Signal, because I’m not on Facebook and they already have SMS on their phone

          • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            4 months ago

            Oh in practice it works quite well for me, basically all my friends and family use Signal now. You can slightly push them towards that, explain the obvious pros, it’s simple to install, so it’s just a small matter of convincing. I only rarely use WhatsApp for some external groups.

            • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Whatsapp isn’t really a thing in my area but man is Facebook messenger is, but yeah nice that you were able, I didn’t have much luck with my relatives to switch over to signal or Discord back when it took off, they just sort of stayed on Facebook.

              My online friend group had a higher adoption rate for discord from skype at first but, that might just be because I refused to give them my phone number so they couldn’t access me elsewhere.

              Really the only group that I had really have an interest in other alternatives, was my cybersecurity class in college, but even they tended to straight towards Discord more than signal (which is insane to me)

  • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Really hoping legislators in Sweden don’t force Signal to pull its services from the country. 🫣

    • badmin@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Signal has been questionable for years. The way it’s been pushed hardly, and how Moxie is emeritus, while much more questionable people are in control, doesn’t fill one with confidence, and does ring some alarm bells. The relative proximity to some in the US establishment should be enough to do that. And the way some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as “Russian Propaganda” and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.

      Frankly, I would trust something like Wire more than Signal. And there are other options too.

      Ideally, something with good security/privacy and is fully P2P would become popular. But those apps/networks never make it mainstream, which is unfortunate.

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        There is a lot in here that I don’t understand.

        1. What’s wrong with Moxie? You mean it’s weird he’s an emeritus and not part of the board?
        2. What’s “much more questionable” about the other people? From the descriptions on that page they all seem like standup people.
        3. Could you explain the “relative proximity to some in the US establishment” bit? That was too vague for me to grasp.
        4. “some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as ‘Russian Propaganda’ and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.” — Who has done this, you mean? And why exactly is it “curious”?

        Honestly, there was nothing at all in there that I understood, due to how vague it all was. I would appreciate it if you or someone could fill me in here, because it’s important to know who’s driving this thing, and if the platform can be trusted. I just want to not go by some vague rumors before I make up my mind.

    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nlEnglish
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      4 months ago

      What legislation would do that? Would they want access to your messages or something?