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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed (lemmy.ca)

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It's brief, around 25:15

https://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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[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I'm going to assume this was Daniel O'Brien's doing... because he's the only Last Week writer I know specifically.

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

Awesome!

[–] ytg@sopuli.xyz 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

~~Is that mpv 👀~~

[+] shoulderoforion@fedia.io -58 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

I've been off Twitter for over almost two years now, on to Federated Mastodon and Mbin, and while I've often spoke against BlueSky, having been founded by Jack, after Jack let Twitter become infested with Nazis for engagement, then sold it to Elon Musk who he knew was going to kill it, when the world started to come to an end two weeks ago, I needed to be plugged in, so signed up for a BlueSky account. There's simply not enough communication happening on Mastodon, not enough people, not discussing the things I'm interested in.

The Fediverse is also a sewer of both overt and covert Antisemitism, where any pro Jewish or pro Israel content is mysteriously "moderated" by antisemites under the guise of political progressivism, which makes it so much less attractive.

So I swallowed my hatred of Jack, and have been "skeeting" on BlueSky just as I did Twitter for all those years, blocking out the Jew hate there (it is legion), and realizing in the end, that's more important to me, connection to live events and discussion as they're happening to get the best collective overview of any given event

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The Fediverse is also a sewer of both overt and covert Antisemitism

Is this a problem unique to the Fediverse, or is this a case that it's more rampant here? Or does it only seem like it?

My feeds are fairly well curated, or perhaps you might say "blinkered", so I don't see a lot of it. Or maybe I don't see what's right in front of me, which is why I ask, since you definitely see it better than I can.

(This is not an attempt at a bad faith argument; I'm firmly anti-anti-Semitism, and I'm not saying it's not there. Frankly, I'd be surprised if there wasn't any. Anywhere there's people, their prejudices generally follow.)

[+] shoulderoforion@fedia.io -24 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

"Lemmy" seems to have be started, and disseminated, by the Hard European Tankie Left, who Administer and Moderate most of it's instances, and what seems to inform the ongoing moderation of any Pro Israel or Pro Jewish voice that has the temerity to defend itself. Lemmy Kilmister owned the largest personal collection of Nazi memorabilia in the world for years up until his death, and just like every other monster you've ever heard of who made that particular obsession the centerpiece of their interest, it probably should have factored in when naming a social media 'verse after. I fully expect all my comments on this to be mysteriously "moderated" as well.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

What did Lemmy do that made him a monster?

[–] OmarDontScare@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

If BlueSky is full of Jew hate, "it's legion", but you’re still using it over Mastodon and Mbin, doesn’t that contradict the idea that antisemitism makes a platform unattractive? If it were your main issue, wouldn’t both be equally bad? Seems like the deciding factor is engagement for you personally, not what moderation happens or doesn't happen.

If antisemitism were the real deal-breaker, you wouldn’t be on BlueSky either.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

It's been 3 hours and your comment is still here...

"Moderate" no, "Influence" yes. I see what you seemed to be trying to say: the Lemmy codebase is fairly authoritian e.g. lacks any way to contact a mod to find out why something was removed, even going so far as to obscure the name of the account that did it, simply saying "mod".

So them being the ones who provide the codebase definitely "influences" us here, but on the other hand they provide the code for free, and anyone at all could make a fork off from it, and administer their own instance however they see fit. Or, as K/Mbin, PieFed, and Sublinks have all done, make their own ~~Reddit replacement~~ Threadiverse software entirely from scratch.

See e.g. !fediverselore@lemmy.ca (here's a start to a post) that proves that people on the Fediverse are allowed to criticize the main Lemmy developers, while still using Lemmy software.

On a personal note I will add: we can respect certain aspects of those people, even as we criticize other aspects, just as we do the same internally inside of our very selves.

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

Nice try Jacob

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 0 points 16 hours ago

I'm Jewish myself and I completely agree with you.. Sadly it exists on a pretty much every social media, but BlueSky has a unique feature called sharable block lists/mute lists, I believe they call it "stacked moderation", I've subscribed to a few of those and it has blocked 90% of antisemites/terrorism sympathisers, I kinda wish some Fedi platform would have a similar feature as well

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