1st Feb is #GlobalSwitchDay
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
There doesn't need to be a replacement for everything. How much does the world need to revolve around a random person's hot-take in 140 characters or as many seconds. These are artificial walls.
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Most of them have Patreon for that, which actually produces income.
What's the incentive? All they would be doing is pushing views away from platforms where having viewers actually benefits them, either through metrics or income or both.
Linux Weekly News already has a channel in YT and the same channel¹ in PT, with a sponsor (Tuxedo Computers).
¹ the same videos uploaded in both places.
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There doesn't need to be a replacement for everything. How much does the world need to revolve around a random person's hot-take in 140 characters or as many seconds. These are artificial walls.
So uh, you joined lemmy why then?
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!
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The fact these filters exist in the first place are not a good sign. When Microsoft introduces new shitware that is "disabled by default" people are skeptical that it might not be disabled for long, but when a fediverse dev does it to block content they personally don't like it's fine? This goes against the entire concept of the fediverse imho. Just block people you don't like yourself
I specifically chose my instance by what content they did and didn't choose to block. I turned away from several otherwise appealing instances because they didn't block some of the content I would've wanted them to. I know I can do it myself, and I do when I need to, but I want an instance that aligns with my interests enough that I don't have to worry about blocking every problematic group as they pop up. If something changes and the instance ends up blocking things I wouldn't want blocked, I move to another instance. It's as easy as moving to another seat on the bus - barely an inconvenience.
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I joined because I got banned from Reddit. Unjustly I claim.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
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Revolt (now known as Stoat) isn't federated though.
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Well damn, I need to update the pic I guess. I didn't make it, just saved it some months ago
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Nice suggestion. I didn't know this was a thing.
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I'm a little behind on this, what does goodreads have to do with bezos?
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
mbin should be on there too IMO. similar to Lemmy but it federates properly with microblog stuff.
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Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.
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I am unreasonably angry about the stretched icons.
I'll join you.
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In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon
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PipePipe is a fork of NewPipe, with more and better features (like built in SponsorBlock). I was watching videos on it just an hour ago.
Looks like there was an update over the weekend. I got to watch this video.
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Here's at least some of the 'feature' list. was about to switch to piefed until I read it.
https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/
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Too much friction, and that's really bad UX.
And now you have to explain to people why the default UI sucks.
I tried to promote https://p.lemmy.world to people, and they tell me to get lost with that dodgy virus link.Don't link p.lemmy.world. it's well over a year out of date.
phtn.app probably looks a bit less suspicious, and also lets you use any Lemmy/Piefed instance.
You could say it as "phtn.app is a web portal for the fediverse" or something like that because the concept of web apps is confusing to many
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I used Lemmy for months, mostly in the browser and my UX was absolutely horrible.
The default browser UI sucks.
I had to try many different settings and eventually through a lot of effort found the Photon UI, which is nice.
The vast majority of users just won't go through that effort. PieFed's default UI is quite clean and modern and much nicer to use, which is why I promote it instead
I use the the apk called "Thunder" and it does a fantastic job. Much better than just using the website of here or reddit.
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As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).
