John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
from beefnugget@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 24 Feb 2025 23:25
https://lemmy.world/post/26015535
from beefnugget@lemmy.world to fediverse@lemmy.ml on 24 Feb 2025 23:25
https://lemmy.world/post/26015535
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/39653865
It’s brief, around 25:15
youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo
If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.
Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)
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Ya know, if a writer for Oliver gets the right push, it isn’t even to strange to get them to literally open an instance on the Fediverse. They love getting their names on shit and the dare “I bet you can’t get @oli.verse instance to become the top Lemmy instance” would be right up their ally. You’d see a million users in a week, lol.
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A little disappointing that Bluesky is on there as well, but pretty awesome other than that. And I guess even Bluesky is probably better than Threads, and definitely better than Xitter.
I’m particularly glad to see Pixelfed as the only Instagram alternative, because it’s a great space that could use more support.
How is bluesky not also big tech? It’s based in Seattle and founded by Jack Dorsey.
It is big tech. It’s just less big tech than Xitter and Facebook. And it at least kinda-sorta has some vague federation-like design. And it’s a “public benefit corporation”, which doesn’t mean much because it’s still for-profit, but it at least means they’re allowed to not put profit ahead of public good, unlike normal for-profit companies. Not as good as Mastodon by far, with its true federation and true not-for-profit status in the guiding entity, but it’s not nothing.
Yeah BlueSky is a solid side-step. It’s still for-profit and not federated but every BlueSky user is one not on X. And a lot of BlueSky’s userbase is comprised of particularly influential X users so them leaving is particularly harmful to the ecosystem.
I also think it’s funny how the journalists who repeat BlueSkys “decentralized” nonsense thought Mastodon was too weird and technical, and yet are promoting Pixelfed. Not complaining, but it is funny.
one of us
Well…someone on his writing team anyways.
You hear that? It’s the sound of dozens of normies storming stux instances. Stay calm don’t panic, the algorithm will take them back in a week.
The algorithm will pull them and the commies will push them.
Hey, the good news is we might get more Communists on federated media.
Any way to watch this from Canada? He says it’s not available in my country.
Never mind, youtube faked me out. Looks like the new one will require a proxy
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Does Grayjay get around region restrictions?
What’s john Oliver’s mastodon account?
It was only for like one second, but something is better than nothing