Some Americans in this thread seems to think this will all blow past while they sit comfortably in their homes.
It won't. Your passivity is exactly what the Republicans depend on. Posting online won't save you. You need to take your actions out in the real world.
There's not one correct course of action, but don't get fooled into inaction. Whether you're a peaceful protester, run for local office, or do a Luigi I won't get myself involved with. Just don't mistake online activity for activism. And don't think you're powerless, that's how they win.
If you press the cog in the top right corner you can choose between six different themes, as well as moving the sidebar around, text size, and a bunch of other tweaks. :)
It has gotten really, really good for photography. There's a bunch of incredible photographers posting their stuff on the Fediverse these days, and they enjoy the appeal of it that it's closer to what Instagram was before it became an influencer hub.
As for random cats and dogs, I guess some people enjoy that as well.
I wouldn't say mbin is awkward to use, but microblogging is included as a bit of a second thought. It's still nice to be able to communicate with the fediverse at large.
PieFed feels faster than the others to me. It has good support for various content (like peertube channels), allows for content filtering with keywords, has combined communities, and a lot of other clever stuff.
I think it's also a bit utopian to expect everyone to make an informed decision about which small instance to sign up for right away. It could be nice to have a little overview ready for whoever has been using lemmy.world or some other big instance for a while, understands how the fediverse works, and wants to migrate to a smaller instance for some reason or another.
Personally I wasn't really sure where to go after Kbin.social, and my decision on Kbin.earth was pretty random. Happy with my decision though!
A landing page of sorts for small instances could be neat - a list of small instances welcoming new users, what their moderation policies are, software, philosophy of (de)federation, and other basic stuff.
It's easy to find the big ones, but for those looking for smaller instances they can be harder to find.
As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It's crazy to me that this is not the case.
I would be worried that when the scammers in charge dump their holdings, the resulting turmoil will affect other currencies as well. Demand-based markets don't respond well nor rationally to panic.
That said, I also think the whole thing is a ponzi, and my understanding is of course affected by that. But I believe the logic above would apply in either case.
As the current us government is very pro crypto, I'd say this is not only very risky, but you would also be buying into their narrative and possibly be an even greater part of it as it crashes and burns.
If you're an organization looking for a platform in which to publish your videos so that they can be spread in your newsletter/social media and embedded on your website, it's probably a very good alternative.
If you're a content creator who runs on donations and has a dedicated following already, it might be good. And as the fediverse grows, it will only get better.
For a lot of the content creators who live off engagement and clicks, it's much less likely to become a viable alternative. The kind of content people will watch for hours, but that nobody would ever consider paying for.
I think it's not about one platform replacing all of YouTube, but about providing viable alternatives for specific uses.
They've fixed it now by the way, after someone contacted them about it. :)
I think it's cool that someone who knows nothing about Mastodon is even writing about this. Though I would wish journalists had the time to double check just a little bit more.
I think (!) the idea is that I could text you using your fediverse handle, and that it could somehow become integrated in other fediverse services.
It makes sense through the following storyline:
Dansup creates Pixelfed
People start texting each other using direct messages on Pixelfed, making Dansup uncomfortable as it is not at all encrypted
Dansup creates sup to provide integrated E2EE direct messaging in Pixelfed/associated platforms
I have no idea if it'll be good or if it'll be used. I struggle enough to get people on Signal. But if it can somehow provide E2EE while benefiting from the social graph of ActivityPub, it might not be the dumbest thing ever.
Paid for the limited plan before, but had not nearly enough searches and got annoyed by the unrolling integration of AI. Happy to be back now, but still not sure about it.
$10 per month is not nothing at all, and if I'm not somewhat confident I am ideologically aligned with Kagi I'll be reluctant to spend so much money on it. I'd rather sponsor open source projects and other things I believe in.
Kagi has a "lense" for Fediverse forums, which is a pretty great solution. Maybe adding Lemmy will work if it finds everything mirrored on lemmy.world, I'm not sure. Kagi finds everything on the original instance.
Of course, it's helped along by the fact that people don't have it installed already. But still fun to se the Fediverse represented in the list of popular apps. I think similar things are happening on Android in many countries.
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If Elena Rossini is indicative of the first generation of native influensers who are successful on the Fediverse, it's really just another reason why I like where this is headed.
It also has 7.4 on IMDB. I should give it a watch.
Some Americans in this thread seems to think this will all blow past while they sit comfortably in their homes.
It won't. Your passivity is exactly what the Republicans depend on. Posting online won't save you. You need to take your actions out in the real world.
There's not one correct course of action, but don't get fooled into inaction. Whether you're a peaceful protester, run for local office, or do a Luigi I won't get myself involved with. Just don't mistake online activity for activism. And don't think you're powerless, that's how they win.