avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
on 21 Jan 2025 23:43
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Welcome! Ask Qs, we’ll answer.
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
on 22 Jan 2025 00:43
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Welcome.
The biggest thing you have to learn is that everything defaults to “active” instead of “hot.” If it seems stale after setting the primary to “hot” in your settings, choose “top 6 hours” and “top 12 hours” to see more content. It’s not as addicting so it takes a little time to settle in to the calmness, but it’s great after you get used to it.
Die4Ever@programming.dev
on 22 Jan 2025 00:48
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I think the join-lemmy.org link was fine, it seemed to get deleted when you edited in links to specific lemmy instances?
mesamunefire@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 23:14
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Its all good!
ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 21 Jan 2025 23:18
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lmao clicked that link and one of the first comments I see is “reddit is pretty decentralized”
I get that 404 needs to make money but this article could greatly benefit from not being paywalled. Or at least list a definition of what decentralized social media is with some actual recommendations before the paywall because people clearly have no fucking clue
Serinus@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 23:25
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I now have a dozen comments on Reddit in the last year, up from 3 an hour ago.
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
on 22 Jan 2025 01:20
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Especially for Redditors, Lemmy is such a no-brainer alternative. I think I’m gonna try to do more, and try to bring some of my audio communities out here by promoting Lemmy in the subs.
Serinus@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 22:44
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It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.
DharkStare@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 23:22
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I agree. The Fediverse stuff is really well suited for governments and businesses. They can be in complete control of their instance, post whatever information they want distributed, and they don’t need to rely on any other business for it.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev
on 22 Jan 2025 02:29
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Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
on 22 Jan 2025 05:27
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Businesses I understand because that involves listening to your tech guy and approving time for it, and businesses hate spending money, even if it wouldn’t really cost them that much in practice. They have a lot of institutional inertia.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 22 Jan 2025 18:01
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You’d need something that is literally only a few clicks and it’s set up, and it auto updates with 0 user intervention. Until that happens your typical business will never want to touch their own hosted mastodon server.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev
on 22 Jan 2025 18:23
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Yeah. I think we’re waiting for the kind of installers and updaters that WordPress achieved before we see typical businesses running their own Mastodon server.
But I do think many organizations have got the risk/reward wrong, by underestimating the risk, at the moment.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 22 Jan 2025 06:28
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From talking to someone involved in local government software, it seemed to me like there is a push in the opposite direction from that; they want and are moving towards offloading as much as possible to third party software vendors.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 23:33
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Completely agree! Seeing the dumb little logos all over timetables and the sides of buses always makes me roll my eyes. First they had to change the “t” logo to the bird, then that’s out of date on a billionaire’s whim and they have to replace it with the apocalyptic “X”. Come on guys, this is getting embarrassing. Stop treating big private companies like Daddy, it’s time to stand on your own feet. The tools are there.
Serinus@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 22:53
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The thing about Mastodon for influencers is… you don’t even have to leave Twitter. Just post to both.
If enough people get into that habit, it makes the transition much easier for everyone.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl
on 21 Jan 2025 23:30
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Please tell me how I can keep posting to twitter after I was banned for being a journalist?
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
on 21 Jan 2025 23:33
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Make another account
jagged_circle@feddit.nl
on 22 Jan 2025 03:05
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That one got banned too. I can’t even signup for a lot of these services. I get banned before I even make a post.
pivot_root@lemmy.world
on 22 Jan 2025 04:08
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You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.
The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.
*With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
on 22 Jan 2025 04:57
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Honestly, if you’re going to do both, do bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky isn’t properly decentralised the way mastodon is, but a lot of influential people are there. Also it’s way better than twitter was.
My point was for people who are scared to leave Twitter. They don’t have to. They can just dip their toes in while still holding their Elon-themed blanket.
I understand that often you can’t just drop the platform where all the engagement is when your job is to promote something. However, you can still enable people who do want to make the switch.
Twitter is very friendly to influencers because it automatically boosts popular posts and hashtags. Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.
That’s an okay decision to take, but it makes it hard to grow the network because there’s a lower financial incentive.
MajorHavoc@programming.dev
on 22 Jan 2025 02:18
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Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.
In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.
Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create an inflated appearance of success.
Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.
But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.
All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.
pivot_root@lemmy.world
on 22 Jan 2025 03:56
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Mastodon doesn’t by design
There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
on 23 Jan 2025 10:25
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Trending section often unusable and basically only rewards the majority (a.k.a Western fediverse).
If you host instance for non-English language for local communities, trending will quickly populated with Western/US-centric conversation and news.
Yeah I just mean that if you want a bullhorn, even if you don’t order it from Amazon, you still donate training data to Amazon every time you use it. Obviously you might have to do that anyway, but there is a trade-off. You can’t completely escape.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl
on 22 Jan 2025 03:04
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So Amazon’s AI will learn “no war but class war” and “eat the rich”?
I really dont mind AI eating up public data.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world
on 21 Jan 2025 23:21
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What’s happening right now is eerily close to the “Gleichschaltung” that happened after Hitler took over Germany, basically bringing all media in line with the will of the party and the leader. It was news media then, it is social media now. Because for many people, social media is their primary news source.
madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world
on 22 Jan 2025 03:34
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Will smaller alternatives be enough to upend their plans?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
on 22 Jan 2025 05:09
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The smaller alternatives will get bigger as the mainstream social media gets worse and worse. The job for us, in whatever way we can, is to build the alternatives and make them ready to handle the influx, and make them welcoming to new people.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl
on 21 Jan 2025 23:30
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jagged_circle@feddit.nl
on 21 Jan 2025 23:33
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Can someone please post the full article in the comments?
Die4Ever@programming.dev
on 22 Jan 2025 00:56
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
on 22 Jan 2025 03:52
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Lemmy.ca will be moved on a fat server in Vancouver colo. Currently on cheap hardware in OVH. Not sure about .world. Probably similar. AWS is expensive. So Bezos would have to have Trump annex Canada before he’d be able to put his fingers on us.
Don’t they have their own DNS? It’s called Route 53 I think?
Though I don’t think you are required to use it with your AWS hosts. But that’s not exactly what I meant by pulling the plug. They could quite literally pull the plug on your service. (Disconnect you from switches/routers, power off your hosts, etc.)
MisterFrog@lemmy.world
on 22 Jan 2025 14:19
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Oh indeed, don’t disagree there, we are as in most respects, at the mercy of our corporate overlords
moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
on 23 Jan 2025 01:33
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Not much, probably. For small scale usecase, like a VPS, AWS is horrifically expensive. For a 4GB of ram VPS, AWS is 30 USD a month, whereas you can get that for 10 USD a month, elsewhere.
AWS does this because of vender lock in. For the few times when a consumer of theirs needs a VPS (or some other service cheaper elsewhere, it’s less effortt to continue to use AWS than to go someplace else.
But for individuals and small organizations, like the fediverse servers, we can just start out on the cheaper options.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
on 22 Jan 2025 03:35
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Go and sprinkle the simplest keywords in the thread - Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed - and tell them your experience.
threaded - newest
Checked the rules and I think this is allowed? But if you’ve still got reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist please go hit this thread: old.reddit.com/…/decentralized_social_media_is_th…
Did hit it. Keep servicing that thread, you’re doing well. It’s blowing up a bit.
Repost this in other communities in Lemmy. Shitpost, technology, etc.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b09ce396-81fa-4740-912f-85cb8ab71d31.png">
Oh no. Centralized social media fights back! 😂
Damn we had a good run.
EDIT: We’ll Streisand em
<img alt="" src="https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/7a622252-cd6c-4cf3-aae2-f5dfe2e6c515.png">
What reason?
Didn’t say but I’m pretty sure it’s because I edited to add lemmy specific information. In particular I mentioned the apps
Next time, make a new subreddit. 😂
/r/Redditalternatives
I caught it in time, i am a fresh convert.
Welcome!
!newcommunities@lemmy.world is a good starting point
Welcome! Ask Qs, we’ll answer.
Welcome.
The biggest thing you have to learn is that everything defaults to “active” instead of “hot.” If it seems stale after setting the primary to “hot” in your settings, choose “top 6 hours” and “top 12 hours” to see more content. It’s not as addicting so it takes a little time to settle in to the calmness, but it’s great after you get used to it.
Thank goodness. You’re safe now with friends ❤️
I think the join-lemmy.org link was fine, it seemed to get deleted when you edited in links to specific lemmy instances?
Its all good!
lmao clicked that link and one of the first comments I see is “reddit is pretty decentralized”
I get that 404 needs to make money but this article could greatly benefit from not being paywalled. Or at least list a definition of what decentralized social media is with some actual recommendations before the paywall because people clearly have no fucking clue
I now have a dozen comments on Reddit in the last year, up from 3 an hour ago.
Especially for Redditors, Lemmy is such a no-brainer alternative. I think I’m gonna try to do more, and try to bring some of my audio communities out here by promoting Lemmy in the subs.
Look at this for inspiration: pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Someday it will happen for Lemmy again.
It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.
I agree. The Fediverse stuff is really well suited for governments and businesses. They can be in complete control of their instance, post whatever information they want distributed, and they don’t need to rely on any other business for it.
Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.
Businesses I understand because that involves listening to your tech guy and approving time for it, and businesses hate spending money, even if it wouldn’t really cost them that much in practice. They have a lot of institutional inertia.
You’d need something that is literally only a few clicks and it’s set up, and it auto updates with 0 user intervention. Until that happens your typical business will never want to touch their own hosted mastodon server.
Yeah. I think we’re waiting for the kind of installers and updaters that WordPress achieved before we see typical businesses running their own Mastodon server.
But I do think many organizations have got the risk/reward wrong, by underestimating the risk, at the moment.
From talking to someone involved in local government software, it seemed to me like there is a push in the opposite direction from that; they want and are moving towards offloading as much as possible to third party software vendors.
Completely agree! Seeing the dumb little logos all over timetables and the sides of buses always makes me roll my eyes. First they had to change the “t” logo to the bird, then that’s out of date on a billionaire’s whim and they have to replace it with the apocalyptic “X”. Come on guys, this is getting embarrassing. Stop treating big private companies like Daddy, it’s time to stand on your own feet. The tools are there.
The thing about Mastodon for influencers is… you don’t even have to leave Twitter. Just post to both.
If enough people get into that habit, it makes the transition much easier for everyone.
Please tell me how I can keep posting to twitter after I was banned for being a journalist?
Make another account
That one got banned too. I can’t even signup for a lot of these services. I get banned before I even make a post.
You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.
The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.
*With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.
Honestly, if you’re going to do both, do bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky isn’t properly decentralised the way mastodon is, but a lot of influential people are there. Also it’s way better than twitter was.
My point was for people who are scared to leave Twitter. They don’t have to. They can just dip their toes in while still holding their Elon-themed blanket.
I understand that often you can’t just drop the platform where all the engagement is when your job is to promote something. However, you can still enable people who do want to make the switch.
Twitter is very friendly to influencers because it automatically boosts popular posts and hashtags. Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.
That’s an okay decision to take, but it makes it hard to grow the network because there’s a lower financial incentive.
In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.
Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create an inflated appearance of success.
Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.
But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.
All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.
There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.
Trending section often unusable and basically only rewards the majority (a.k.a Western fediverse).
If you host instance for non-English language for local communities, trending will quickly populated with Western/US-centric conversation and news.
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Archive link: http://archive.today/ztU6A
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that’s what we want, yeah, but it won’t help us connect with the people we need to dislodge from the death cult.
There is some discussion of that idea here:
pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#…
Uh, no? We can’t organize if we lock up our information.
We need both. Public bullhorns and confidential communications.
Yeah I just mean that if you want a bullhorn, even if you don’t order it from Amazon, you still donate training data to Amazon every time you use it. Obviously you might have to do that anyway, but there is a trade-off. You can’t completely escape.
So Amazon’s AI will learn “no war but class war” and “eat the rich”?
I really dont mind AI eating up public data.
What’s happening right now is eerily close to the “Gleichschaltung” that happened after Hitler took over Germany, basically bringing all media in line with the will of the party and the leader. It was news media then, it is social media now. Because for many people, social media is their primary news source.
Will smaller alternatives be enough to upend their plans?
The smaller alternatives will get bigger as the mainstream social media gets worse and worse. The job for us, in whatever way we can, is to build the alternatives and make them ready to handle the influx, and make them welcoming to new people.
Can someone please post the full article in the comments?
@spaduf@slrpnk.net idk if you saw my post about this in programming.dev/post/24371441
How much of the fediverse runs on AWS and how willing do we think besos would be to pull the plug on those?
Doing my part running my instances locally 🫡
Lemmy.ca will be moved on a fat server in Vancouver colo. Currently on cheap hardware in OVH. Not sure about .world. Probably similar. AWS is expensive. So Bezos would have to have Trump annex Canada before he’d be able to put his fingers on us.
.world and a majority of the fediverse uses Hetzner afaik.
EDIT: According to Fedidb Hetzner is the most common ASN (excluding Cloudflare).
They don’t control the domain registrar’s at least. Yet. (Or at least not de jure)
Don’t they have their own DNS? It’s called Route 53 I think?
Though I don’t think you are required to use it with your AWS hosts. But that’s not exactly what I meant by pulling the plug. They could quite literally pull the plug on your service. (Disconnect you from switches/routers, power off your hosts, etc.)
Oh indeed, don’t disagree there, we are as in most respects, at the mercy of our corporate overlords
Not much, probably. For small scale usecase, like a VPS, AWS is horrifically expensive. For a 4GB of ram VPS, AWS is 30 USD a month, whereas you can get that for 10 USD a month, elsewhere.
AWS does this because of vender lock in. For the few times when a consumer of theirs needs a VPS (or some other service cheaper elsewhere, it’s less effortt to continue to use AWS than to go someplace else.
But for individuals and small organizations, like the fediverse servers, we can just start out on the cheaper options.
Go and sprinkle the simplest keywords in the thread - Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed - and tell them your experience.
Add links as well, Lemmy onboarding can be very clunky: lemmy.world/post/24220536
Something like
“Lemmy has 42k monthly active users
Feel free if you have any questions”
I thought they’re removing posts with links.
Social media is a cancer on society.