i came up with the idea of a no meta may challenge super last minute and i’ve been enjoying a migraine all day, so i’m taking a break. not a great time for a break when the first day of the challenge ends today but it’s probably fine

i know it’s not great and not everyone will agree with my choices; at the end of the day i think we can all at least agree that the alternatives are still an improvement over staying with meta

thinking i might want to increase the font size on the challenges

if you think it’s a good idea, feel free to edit, share, make your own, idc, fucc the zucc

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[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i think most people just don't care. we really need to spread the message. i think getting reddit users on piefed and lemmy is a good start. (like your username btw)

i want to spread the word so bad but i was banned from reddit. never knew why and i was very curious and surprised until i found out Paul McCartney was banned for posting pictures of his concert. so now i know it could have been anything.

favebook is another matter. i may have never had an account but i love tech history. mark and the gang built tools to scrape you other account back in the day an add the data to facebook. made it easy to switch. they also made it close to impossible to do the same to facebook. but it would require something like that to get people on to something else.

ok.. soap box rant tangent time.....

i am so pissed all the governments have been stepping up this age check anti vpn anti privacy push. in my magical completely unrealistic paradise world, we would have public service annpuncents about how to self host and be a part of the solution. i am so just disenchanted with society (not sure if thats the best term). i feel like it was only two years ago where i feel the bad stuff was selling our data to advertisers. sure the nsa kept illegally spying on us but the EFF would fight them in court.

now its so much worse :(

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

i think most people just don't care. we really need to spread the message.

this is how you spread the message. a challenge is a call to action, and it's popular in the sub 40 age range.

[–] pieland@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

i think most people just don’t care

i agree - so the question is, how do we make them care?

https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/44092/ideas-for-making-fetch-happen-a-mass-exodus-to-the-fediverse

https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1897818/how-to-sucesfully-post-about-piefed-on-reddit

i’ve been trying - and seemingly failing - to make people care for awhile. but i’ll do my best to keep trying.

i was banned from reddit for months… maybe close to a year? it seems pretty easy to set off their ban hammer.

mark and the gang built tools to scrape you other account back in the day an add the data to facebook. made it easy to switch. they also made it close to impossible to do the same to facebook. but it would require something like that to get people on to something else.

i was thinking that - and apparently fedibook does allow you to import all your facebook posts :)

wafrn allows bluesky imports… i imagine with activitypub, hypothetically some stuff from threads could be imported, but i don’t know for sure.

pixelfed does allow you to import your instagram account

as for the government stuff… yeah. don’t like it.

like your username btw

thanks! when new sites i’m interested in pop up, i like to try to get a silly username related to the site name sometimes, although i think piefed might’ve been around for a year before my username? but i kept seeing it mentioned on reddit around the time i joined and i’d never heard of it before, so i assumed it was new (although it is still pretty new in the grand scheme of things, i think :))