As seen with Signal Advocacy as well.
They trust their corpo bubbles more, pretty sad innit.
The barrier to alternatives is very high, especially when they simply don’t understand the risks.
People tend to overcomplicate the thing. Sync for Lemmy was a 1:1 clone of the one for Reddit.
Users can just jump in without any idea of what federation is: https://lemmy.zip/post/47438646?scrollToComments=true
I agree when it comes something doomed like Mastodon, I bounced right off it. Way too annoying to navigate. Understatement, it’s genuinely unpleasant to use. Your reward for doing so (at least when I tried last year) is a near ghost town with nothing but American politic whining for content. Even worse community than Bluesky where that can be filtered out somewhat.
I don’t think piefed/lemmy takes a galaxy brain to figure out once signed up but yeah even just having multiple choice sign up pages scares people probably. The apps can obfuscate that for their small minds I think long term maybe? I’m also happy to just keep a small community going it’s not really a concern for me. Big population just invites more bad actors.
I… don’t really want them here, tbh
I’m sure you would like more leftists around.
Depends in the kind of “Leftist”, I suppose.
I could do with fewer tankies, that’s for sure.
Edit: lol downvoted by a lemmygrad user. I love when they self-report.
Nah. It’s too much of an echo chamber as it is. I want nuance.
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Perhaps your family and coworkers would be more interested in Lemmy instances that are more selective with their federation list.
Usually, bad excuses are just an indicator that someone doesn’t care and just wants you to not bother them about it, rather than a “i’m interested but concerned here are my arguments”.
If we want more apps, instances and comms we have to try with the outreach. Not everyone who hears about the fediverse is uninterested.
Don’t forget there’s one monent every time Sysiphos rolls the rock up and down the hill when his world is perfect. That’s when he’s on top and for a second everything is in balance.
Camus told me to imagine him happy but I have Aphantasia :(
Sorry Sisyphus, you’re perma miserable.
I’ve never really got that story. I understand it as a metaphor, but to me it doesn’t quite work because this problem can be solved rather easily by constructing something, anything, at the peak to hold the boulder from tumbling. If he places the rock in exactly the same way each time, no wonder it falls down. But he should at least try a different approach or any other trick that improves the chances of it working. There are plenty of options.
Granted, I never read the actual story, I’ve only pieced it together from the many pop culture references to it. So they may be other aspects of the story that I’m missing.
Sysiphos has nothing to construct anything. It’s just him and the rock and the hill, forever. Also, the gods wouldn’t let him ease the curse that’s on him without punishment. The main concept behind ancient Greek and Roman myths is not to mess with the gods. They’ve got theit own business and don’t care about human affairs.
I couldn’t get my brother over the new user hump, and he’s way more technically inclined that I am in many ways. I build PCs (he doesn’t), but he runs things like Tor and Linux, dual boots, etc. He’s also more politically left than I am, at least through overall experience (he actively canvased for Bernie and such). He’s the reason I even got into politics and learned that I’m a leftist. He hates the same things I do about reddit, so I thought for sure that he would click with Lemmy.
But it sounds like he inadvertently joined one of the bad instances and wound up being defederated pretty early on during the post-migration fiasco. I don’t think he fully understood what was going on, and wound up leaving due to the negative experience and perceived censorship. Kind of a bummer. I tried to get him to join a new instance but he didn’t want to go through the trouble of setting everything up, I guess.
He was very much in the wrong place at the wrong time.
There’s no way I’d recommend friends and family to the Fediverse, well, at least not Lemmy (can’t speak for the wider services).
Piefed onboarding process asks how much politics the new joiner wants to see : none, a bit, all of it.
That and keyword filters already help make the All feed more appealing
that honestly sounds fantastic
Where is this? I set up my piefed blahaj account and have spent like the past 3 hours blocking communities after setting up filters that should already be blocking those communities.
It is an absolute slog trying to get a feed that isn’t all just depressing or toxic shit.
It should be a pop up when you first login to your account
Also, you can import your settings from your Beehaw accounts to import your blocklist
Mastodon is more approachable.
“Do you want to be called a neo liberal bootlicker for pretty standard positions shared by a majority of people? Have I got the place for you!”
“Want to be compared to a mass murderer if you read enough to think proportional representation isn’t a great plan?”
Lemmy is toxic as fuck. Decentralization is a good thing, but it doesn’t magically fix social media.
Honestly if I remembered what I did to have something to poke at before Lemmy I’d probably just do that. It’s a mostly unenjoyable compulsion at this point. The whole thing seems to be just childish bickering and depression bait.
friends are a sign of weakness so i rather not have those
