1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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Really? Huh, I have a decent amount of communities blocked and I've never seen a single post from anyone of them after implementing the block
User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you'd still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.
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Maybe add Matrix as a Discord alternative?
Last time I checked theirs still no channels ? Discoverability is not really their ethier only active one I really found was the monero one
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Please add chess.com → lichess
Lichess is not on the fedi
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All due respect to Mastodon but BlueSky is way more viable right now.
Agreed and activitypub is great for creating a indie web kind of feel but it’s just a flawed model that brings the power dynamics of Reddit mods but with 0 checks to counteract it.
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Last time I checked theirs still no channels ? Discoverability is not really their ethier only active one I really found was the monero one
It now has workspaces (it's called servers in Discord) and there you can have chats, which are basically channels like in Discord.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
For things that you're using by yourself, sure, it's doable. However, for content creation, it's pretty hard. Some of those alternatives just don't have the critical mass yet. Maybe it would be an option to do both in parallel for some time before switching completely, but might not work for everybody.
Practical example: I'm a hobbyist photographer. Small timer, less than 1000 followers. My livelihood doesn't depend on this, but I'm still serious about it. I mainly do concerts and sport events (so a lot of things involving other people) and my main outlets are Facebook and Instagram. Switching to something else would mean either 1) that no one will see my work or 2) that people will see my photos on the alternative place, they'll copy them over and they'll still end up on Facebook and Instagram, but this time without my creative control (thus badly cropped and recompressed several times - so even if I pay special attention to those things when publishing by myself, the effort goes down the drain when someone else does it).
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User level community and instance blocks will stop you from seeing posts from those places, but it does not block their users or their comments, so you'd still be able to see them around in non-blocked communities.
You can also establish a user block though too, so if their comments in unblocked communities are making your experience less than ideal, just block that user.
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You can also establish a user block though too, so if their comments in unblocked communities are making your experience less than ideal, just block that user.
That's not a terribly good user experience if a user doesn't want to interact with or see any comments from users of a particular instance, as then it would require the user to manually block hundreds of users over a long span of time.
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Lets make February a switch month. It is impossible to switch in one day
Yes, you have one month time to switch and then on the first sunday of the next month you should talk about your switch with someone or post it somewhere. That's the idea of #DIDit.
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Lemmy and Piefed are both Reddit alternatives. I'm not sure what all the pros and cons are of each, but Lemmy's developers are tankies so probably better to direct users and funding to a different project. I'm only on Lemmy because I wasn't aware of Piefed when I first joined.
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And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s
No one likes the lemmy lead devs or their stances. But, to my knowledge, they just keep doing their own thing over at
.mland never channel it into their actual codebase.When I first started here, I was on Kbin, and switched to lemmy because it was so much better. I considered switching to Piefed exactly because of these reasons you mentioned (I've already switched lemmy instances, comment history is not an issue for me), but when I looked into it there were so many just frankly aggravating things about the way it works and filters stuff by default (not to mention being written in Python, but that's completely tangential) that I couldn't do it.
Sure, lemmy developers have backwards principles. But at least their software doesn't. I completely get why someone would use Piefed instead, especially if they're trans or of some other demographic directly targeted by the lemmy developers, but I wouldn't do it myself (unless it gets better, of course).
And obviously the Piefed codebase is so politically and ethically agreeable… /s
People are more likely to donate to a project that they actually use. If more people are using piefed, it means more money going to that project rather than a bunch of tankies. So I can see why people who disagree with the Lemmy devs might want to direct people elsewhere even if the software itself is apolitical.
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I'd argue that it is more because so many people have hate comms and groups set up specifically to target the lemmy devs. Idk why people hate Des so much
Theee are hate comms for the lemmy devs? I've failed run across them, huh.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Do you really want the world to join here? I don't think you do. A lot of the world is anti trans, anti woke or whatever they want to call it. I'm pretty open minded but the Marxist purists who continuously shout down differing opinions get really old sometimes.
