fwiw fren, I feel the exact same way.
I built my corner of the fediverse to get away from the nazi gestapo who destroyed big tech with their hatred of basic human rights. Suddenly they're showing up like "oh, this is our place now."
It's like "No, we built this to get away from you. Go back to the lands you razed and leave us alone"
I built my corner of the fediverse to get away from the nazi gestapo who destroyed big tech with their hatred of basic human rights. Suddenly they're showing up like "oh, this is our place now."
It's like "No, we built this to get away from you. Go back to the lands you razed and leave us alone"
I sometimes use speech recognition and it makes the mistake and I'm like "wtf I'm not illiterate I swear"
Honestly, I'd treat personal data like that like learning someone's password while doing IT. I don't know it, I don't want to know it, and if someone starts to tell it to me I'd be like "shshshsh stop I don't want to know"
That actually is pretty incredible.
I checked Canada first and was like "hey way to go" considering the population size, but then I saw Germany and France and was blown away. Those guys are punching way above their weight on the fediverse!
I checked Canada first and was like "hey way to go" considering the population size, but then I saw Germany and France and was blown away. Those guys are punching way above their weight on the fediverse!
Personally, I think it's already started. Look at what happened in the UK (bondholder freakout resulting in political upheaval and CB printing money while having 10%+ inflation), what's happening in Japan(multiple bailouts of the yen), what's happening in China(even the fake numbers are really low). They're the canary telling us there's already poisonous gas in the tunnel.
Youtuber whatifalthist always says when he's making predictions he's fighting against God because anything can happen so I think I'll take the same disclaimer. I could be totally wrong.
I should also disclaim that "economic collapse" doesn't mean the end of the world, but it'll definitely hurt really badly. I will admit I sort of think main street has already been dealing with an economic collapse for decades.
Youtuber whatifalthist always says when he's making predictions he's fighting against God because anything can happen so I think I'll take the same disclaimer. I could be totally wrong.
I should also disclaim that "economic collapse" doesn't mean the end of the world, but it'll definitely hurt really badly. I will admit I sort of think main street has already been dealing with an economic collapse for decades.
To be honest, this is actually happened a number of times. The Canadian election ends up lining up close to the American election, and say what you will about Canadian democracy, we know who's in charge of the country by morning.
There's a whole bunch of people in these companies making upper class salaries basically to fart around with their pet projects which have nothing to do with the company. That's why they can spend so much time and energy worrying about things that don't make them a penny and do cost them millions of users.
It won't be until there's an election to dispute, but don't worry I'm just kidding around.
I have alluded to this day in the past by calling it "The Day of the ant and the grasshopper"
For 15 years a lot of people have been screaming at the top of their lungs talking about how the current economic paradigm was unsustainable, and it was just a matter of time before things collapsed.
Between the economic stagnation and the high inflation, there isn't going to be a lot of room to hit the gas like we did in 2003 and 2008, the same can't be done again -- we're about to blow all of our cylinders from all the nitro we've been running through.
For 15 years a lot of people have been screaming at the top of their lungs talking about how the current economic paradigm was unsustainable, and it was just a matter of time before things collapsed.
Between the economic stagnation and the high inflation, there isn't going to be a lot of room to hit the gas like we did in 2003 and 2008, the same can't be done again -- we're about to blow all of our cylinders from all the nitro we've been running through.
The software product many sites use is called "mastodon", but taken as a whole, this is not "mastodon", it's the fediverse. The fediverse consists of many different software products that all do slightly different things.
For example:
Peertube is a youtube alternative.
Bookwyrm is a platform for sharing literary tastes
Funkwhale is a soundcloud alternative
Pixelfed is for sharing images
Lemmy and Lotide are reddit-alikes
Because the copy of the software is generally about the same, each site running the software is called an "instance".
And they all support the common ActivityPub protocol so not only can (for example) people from different peertube server subscribe to channels on another server, but (and this is amazing), you can follow and participate in many of these things from the site you're reading this on!
One thing to know that's a bit technical: The ActivityPub protocol works by asking other sites what's going on, so if nobody on your site is subscribed yet, then there's probably nothing there. Once you subscribe, you'll start to see new posts. (By the way, that's the same for users on other instances, in case you subscribed to someone and can't see anything yet)
Here's some examples:
@geotechland has a Peertube channel which you can find @geotechland at but it's also available at https://tilvids.com/c/geotechland/videos
Lemmy Instance Solarpnk's self-hosting forum is available at @selfhosting but it's also available at https://slrpnk.net/c/selfhosting
Of course, you can connect through the software you're reading this with right now, but you can also create a separate account on that sort of software, because the different interfaces are useful. A peertube instance will give you a youtube-like interface to go through videos, and a lemmy instance will give you a threaded conversation view.
It's a wide, wide world out there, and the power of these tools goes far beyond being a "twitter alternative" into being a whole ecosystem of different things that can all interoperate.
#twittermigration #feditips
For example:
Peertube is a youtube alternative.
Bookwyrm is a platform for sharing literary tastes
Funkwhale is a soundcloud alternative
Pixelfed is for sharing images
Lemmy and Lotide are reddit-alikes
Because the copy of the software is generally about the same, each site running the software is called an "instance".
And they all support the common ActivityPub protocol so not only can (for example) people from different peertube server subscribe to channels on another server, but (and this is amazing), you can follow and participate in many of these things from the site you're reading this on!
One thing to know that's a bit technical: The ActivityPub protocol works by asking other sites what's going on, so if nobody on your site is subscribed yet, then there's probably nothing there. Once you subscribe, you'll start to see new posts. (By the way, that's the same for users on other instances, in case you subscribed to someone and can't see anything yet)
Here's some examples:
@geotechland has a Peertube channel which you can find @geotechland at but it's also available at https://tilvids.com/c/geotechland/videos
Lemmy Instance Solarpnk's self-hosting forum is available at @selfhosting but it's also available at https://slrpnk.net/c/selfhosting
Of course, you can connect through the software you're reading this with right now, but you can also create a separate account on that sort of software, because the different interfaces are useful. A peertube instance will give you a youtube-like interface to go through videos, and a lemmy instance will give you a threaded conversation view.
It's a wide, wide world out there, and the power of these tools goes far beyond being a "twitter alternative" into being a whole ecosystem of different things that can all interoperate.
#twittermigration #feditips