Something to help people lead to the Fediverse

[ofiuco@piefed.ca]

As someone who had to jump ship more than 3 times, I keep saying to think of their accounts as disposable because we don't know if we picked right or when/if the mods/admins/hosts will go crazy.

[nocturne@slrpnk.net]

I started on .world and quickly realized I wanted a smaller instance. So I moved to .ee and sopuli, then when .ee went down I decided to not limit myself to a single instance. I do not have as many accounts as cm02 does, 4 total I think. But only use 3 of them much.

[nocturne@slrpnk.net]

You might want to look into another number.

[stoy@lemmy.zip]

You did not suggest anything, you came in flying with insults

[zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Oh nooo, I insulted a product which is developed by mentally unstable people, how could I. Forgot that we are in church here, sorry mate

[spider89@lemmy.world]

Matrix might be better..

[stoy@lemmy.zip]

Eh, insulting is fine, insulting without a stated reason is just confusing, gotta give people some context.

[nutomic@lemmy.ml]

Thanks, I guess. You seem like a very nice and reasonable person.

[zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Gotcha, I assumed it was already known.

[bazell@lemmy.zip]

These are like 2 sides of one coin. PieFed is basically a very good modification of Lemmy with its own advantages and problems.

[worldsdumbestman@lemmy.today]

What's with Piefed? Isn't it just another Lemmy instance?

[nutomic@lemmy.ml]

To be honest I'm not fine with being insulted by that guy.

[tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub]

PieFed is a different software. Lemmy is written in Rust and has a certain set of features.

PieFed is a newer project, written from scratch in Python, by completely different people. It includes Lemmy's features and shows the same posts as Lemmy, but has additional features such as polls, events, feeds (which are the same thing as multireddits on Reddit), emoji reactions, flairs, notifications for new comments coming for some specific post or new posts coming in some specific community, messaging with Mastodon users, and some other stuff that fails to come to my mind right now

There are several PieFed instances: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

[alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm genuinely sorry you have to go through all the slander and name calling people like to throw at you and Dessalines for developing wonderful software that isn't full of lib-bias censorship tools and other questionable decisions 🫂🫂️‍

[snoringearthworm@sh.itjust.works]

Users are trapped by the network effect and a desire for ease of use over anything else.

The corporate alternatives will always be an easier sell.

Twitter > Bluesky
Instagram > Upscrolled
TikTok > RedNote
Reddit > no corporate alternative
YouTube > no corporate alternative
Discord > no corporate alternative

To get the average user, you don't just have to convince them to leave Twitter, you have to convince them to leave corporate social media and all of their friends that still use it.

You have to convince them to accept additional inconvenience and complexity (@usernames and @instancenames?) in exchange for no direct, tangible benefit. (We know it's worth it, but the average user doesn't know and doesn't care.)

The people who could handle that are already here. Adoption going forward will be (at best) a slow trickle until we reach some level of critical mass.

::: spoiler Why people don't leave Reddit
Reddit has the advantage of years of community-built knowledge, and it's a "one-stop shop". Looking for the gaming community? Go to reddit, type in gaming, it'll be in the top 3, if not the top 10.

Go to the threadiverse, and you have to run the gauntlet of servers (what's an instance?), deferated instances (why can't I see XYZ?), and 20 communities with similar names (which gaming community is the "real" one?). The switching cost is too high for most as long as Reddit still exists.
:::

::: spoiler Why people don't leave Discord
Discord is easy to set up, and they're digging their claws into game dev by making it easy to monetize communities (enshittification, here we come!).

Revolt Stoat isn't federated, so each server is segregated from the others. As they grow, users will centralize for the sake of convenience. My bet is they either sell out or remain a niche alternative.

Element is (still) too complicated and unreliable. Audio sharing is inconsistent (no audio streaming on desktop screenshare, mics won't work, etc). Video calls aren't fully implemented.
:::

::: spoiler Why people won't leave YouTube
No one can match YouTube's sheer scale. They have billions of videos and billions of users. Their monetization system means that creators are incentivized to create quality content for the platform.

By contrast, PeerTube's best content is often mirrors or backups of content from other platforms. PeerTube is a great backup, but without monetization to incentivize creators, it's not a real alternative.

[thekaul@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It kind of looks like Stoat is just an Open Source Discord clone? While the idea is great, it looks like all their servers are hosted by them (correct me if I'm wrong). Was really hoping for some kind of self hosted Discord where all the data is stored locally. I use Mumble currently, which is great for voice chat, but there are simply not enough features.

Edit: Actually I found the github page and it seems like there is a way to deploy this locally. Disregard

[tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub]

Basically the context is this: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

[nutomic@lemmy.ml]

Thank you

[tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub]

I would recommend exporting your settings just in case. I was using an instance that kind of vanished for a week and then returned, but with my user account completely gone

It's nice that you can just import your settings from a file on your own hard drive and continue from basically where you left.

[tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus]

You know that piefed.world exists? Its admins are the same people that are also admins of your current home instance, lemmy.world.