Too bad she says she wait until more controversies occur before she considers adding the platform to her social media list.
Lemmy section starts at 9:31 if you just want to see that part.
Too bad she says she wait until more controversies occur before she considers adding the platform to her social media list.
Yeah, this is a shame. I don’t know the channel, but it seems like this video is more of an experiment in trying EU tech rather than actively recommending people move off US services. The creator is content (a content creator?) to stay on Reddit for now, so she’s not necessarily ideologically motivated to switch to an EU alternative, decentralized platform, etc.
The “too complicated” criticism is her main reason for not adding Lemmy to her list of accounts. She does talk about it in terms of “adding” rather than “replacing”, which is interesting. When I came over to kbin (RIP) in the APIcalypse, it coincided with leaving Reddit. I had no intention of using both. I can understand how treating Lemmy as an extra social media platform might change how you feel about it vs. dropping something else.
We almost always talk about fediverse platforms in terms of which centralized platform they’re an alternative to. Some proportion of people clearly don’t treat them that way. I wonder how you appeal to those groups. If they’re currently happy with an existing service, saying “It’s like that” isn’t necessarily going to get them to join the federated equivalent.
In short, are there any advantages of the fediverse for people who don’t have a problem with centralization?
Lemmy’s decentralisation makes communities that have a specific focus to thrive
Even if we hate it, hexbear and Lemmygrad are two examples that are essentially isolated, but thriving with unique culture and community, and compared to r/communism they have better sources, and more variety
Star Trek thrives too in their own instance, and beehaw used to not even be federated to every other Lemmy Instance if I remember right
Lemmy creates easy to maintain, easy to connect communities, that don’t force you to sign onto specifically their platform, or force you to interact with what you don’t want to see, for example, being in Lemmy just for star trek, very easy to filter everything else out
short, are there any advantages of the fediverse for people who don’t have a problem with centralization?
hey, that’s me. It’s just another social media platform for news, memes and information for me
I’m keen to see people’s review of PieFed, IMO for the general population it will be a much better user experience.
De-Duplication alone is huge.
I just wish it worked with Voyager
I just wish it worked with Voyager
Indeed. Lack of mobile app is a huge drawback
The onboarding for piefed is huge as well. So easy to kickstart your own feed.
What’s the difference between piefed and the other instances?
PieFed has Topic-Based Organization, Cross-Post Deduplication, Improved Onboarding Experience etc.
You can export your Lemmy content and import it to PieFed.
Try it out for a day, you’d probably want to switch
Hm, jerboa will still be usable with this?
No, that app won’t be usable with piefed. It’s a different software so to speak and apps have to support it.
Ah, got it. Thanks! I’ll check it out still.
What is that?
If it’s a Lemmy community, then most likely yes.
Jerboa is a mobile app for Lemmy, and it does not currently work with PieFed.
Let’s send in the lemmy squad!
