What is Lemmy ?
a mental media
or maybe a social illness…
no its a mental media
A mental illness
hmm i don’t know. it sounds similar to lemm.ee.
YouTube may be a mental illness, but it’s my preferred mental illness.
Yeah, I was more going for centralisation vs decentralisation but i agree.
If there is one irreplaceable content network, it’s youtube. The amount of quality shit you can watch there for free is insane.
I hardly use it these days for anything except to follow a number of tabletop RPG/wargame crafters that post videos there, and for that there is just no substitute
I’m fine almost entirely without that mental illness.
Unpopular opinion: Bluesky is annoying because if I say anything about queer issues (especially trans ones) I get followed by a bunch of alt-righters and the occasional dude with a kiwifarms avatar or something weird like “we will find you” in their bio. Yeah they’re just bots and they’re easy enough to block but it’s tedious. It’s weird how many people nagged me to join and no one even mentioned that.
Yeah, thats not a bluesky problem specifically, this could easily happen to the fediverse, we’re just smaller, and better equipped to stop it since its more mature.
This is the first I’m hearing of this. Thanks for posting
bluesky is the liberal cousin in a family of commies, also they actually have an active community with it’s own vibe.
At least people know the bluesky logo. Wtf is that triforce on the right
PeerTube (don’t duckduckgo “peertube logo” with safe search off)
Bruh
Why the fuck does it show rule34
I couldn’t help myself and did it.
Why?
It’s just porn for whatever reason.
it seems entirely random categories and from random sites too, wonder how that happened
My question is why doesn’t the PeetTube logo show up at all? If you turn safe search on, or change any of the letters to capitals (“peertube logO”) it’s nothing but the logo.
its also region dependent! my region shows the peertube logo, but the english speaking regions (and also catalonia for some reason???) show nothing but porn
wtf is this???
Also if you have chosen all regions or at least my home region, it just shows me the logo.
Huh i didnt get it. Must have safesearch(censorship) enabled by default.
Edit: it is in fact straight up porn 💀
Doesn’t for me.
Bluesky is just going to turn into twitter in a few years. How does no one see the issue with one company owning a platform?!
You need to have a couple of explicitly anticapitalist thoughts to see the issue with it. So yeah, most won’t see the issue with it.
Maybe bluesky might take a bit longer, but I don’t see how threads is any better than twitter.
Just a different asshat running the company
It’s all shite. ALL of it. Time to unplug and go outside.
Honestly, threads was only popular because of it being fused with instagram, so you would already have an audience and because it was the simplest alternative at the time.
People aren’t thinking that critically. Maybe they need to experience the cycle a couple more times.
While you can critisise its decentralisation, it is still in development. There is an effort (https://freeourfeeds.com/, cory doctorow supports it) to host atproto infrastructure outside of bsky’s control.
it is not still in development decentralisation on bluesky is vapourware it will never exist it’s just part of the standard EEE cycle it’s marketing they’ll say it didn’t work out and cancel it the second they become the predominant platform
You dropped these: ,…
Punctuation aside, I find that hard to believe, they literally started out as a way to make twitter decentralised after jack dorsey got ✨inspired✨ by a paper on decentralisation. Decentralization on bluesky does exist, they got a lot of flack for banning a trans person who pointed out their head of t&s liked barely legal porn, but she just made her own pds (because bsky is open source) and is now untouchable. All it needs is account moving and to fix up did:plc a bit and it should be decent. I’d reccomend reading @[email protected] s article about it, points out its strenghts and weaknesses quite well. https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/ . I myself am annoyed at bluesky simple because I am a big fan of mastodon, but its already won.
The issue is size
If it was federated the same problems would arise, see lemmy
There needs to be user caps
If it does, a new alternative will pop up, no biggie
Remove Bluesky and add Lemmy.
Are you also on lemmy? Cool to find fellow lemmies in the wild!
I’m on Lemmy right now.
I am lemming as a lemming at the moment.
🤯
Posting from Lemmy right now! It’s so fucking cool how we can all be on different platforms but still chat it up.
I just got the screenshot from slashdot. Its the list of their social medias.
Bluesky isn’t much better.
You just need to learn to curate your feed.
The problem I have with it isn’t the feed, it’s the ownership.
Specifically who?
gestures around wildly anyone owning social media.
“How dare they not be a huge billionaire corporation that kisses Trump’s ass!” Ok buddy
They are another corporation.
I would’ve thought folks here would understand why corporate ownership of social media is ultimately the problem.
I don’t think that’s their argument. There are no bluesky instances (yet?) so power is consolidated no matter how much they have.
I don’t get why people keep saying this, anyone can host a pds which stores your posts, and a lot of people have done this. Some people are hosting relays (with just bsky.social blacklisted so they don’t go bankrupt paying for storage). https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q
Wait, Alice? As in @[email protected] the admin?
i doubt it.
I don’t think anyone said that.
I’m RSS
I miss the days of filling up my RSS feed from different websites. I hate how consolidated the internet became.
I mean, rss is really only dead on the consumer side, every website still seems to have it. Twitter is the only big one that got rid of it.
I’m reading quite a few blogs, a lot of them don’t have RSS anymore.
Out of interest, which ones? You could contact the owner and ask them to set it up.
you can still use rss, i have a feed going on my phone and it’s good
Yea, but it’s not the same making an RSS feed from a social media feed. Websites used to be interesting, they were like the “magazines” or “subreddits” of internet before social media took off.
i just subscribe to blogs+articles from journalists i like on mine
where lemmy
Probably somewhere between mental illness and real social media.
But for other reasons than the other mental illnesses
I definitely get brain damage every time I open this app
I just screenshat slashdots list of social mediums.
Add bluesky to the list of mental ilnesses
Damn, watching videos is a mental illness now?
It gives you the woke virus.
youtube is fine as a video host but it’s awful as a discovery platform. look what it puts on the front page when you’re logged out sometime.
Never log out, my algorithm is tuned to me quite well. Even get very small creators suggested to me.
Definitely seems to be out of the norm though.
I suspect you need quite narrow tastes for the algorithm to be able to figure it out, like if you watch sports videos it’s probably just gonna keep feeding your sports videos forever, because that’s trivially easy and works.
i know i’ve had times were i got a bit too lax with the kinds of minecraft videos i watched and i could feel the algorithm desperately wanting to feed me standard clickbaity shouty videos, and its disappointment when i recoiled from that.
Youtube shorts: 💀
My YouTube frontpage is actually empty. Might be due to the various browser extensions I’m using, not sure which one though.
use peertube <3
To watch what?
blender videos
Yes. It all started with animated gifs, and it only got worse from there.
Mastodon ain’t any better.
oh no, germans posting cat photos, the horrors
Why? My experience there has been quite positive.
Out of interest, what problems did you have with it?
