Social Media is for the Birds #nobodycares

[Essence Lumin]

This is different. I am getting "This site cannot be reached" for facebook.com. I can get everywhere else.

 

[Essence Lumin]

There is a pattern here.

 

[WolfEyes]

FB is working fine for me.

 

[Free]

Someone is on their game.



Maglink

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Catherynne M. Valente (@catvalente@mastodon.world)

My refusal to participate in the reboot of Mark #Zuckerberg as the internet's Cool Friend should not be taken as support of Elon #Musk in any way, but can we not fall for another smirking fascist with his shirt off? I’M GONNA YELL A LOT...

mastodon.world

 

[Jupiter Rowland]

Several of the subs I used to read have gone private and I can no longer read the subs. I rarely post anything because a certain person is still stalking me and several others there. So, I haven't bothered messaging any mods to gain access.

People wonder why I claim my online life is shrinking. This is a good example.

Lots of subreddits have been relaunched as Lemmy communities or /kbin magazines recently by the same people.

It may finally be worth for a few more people to take a step outside monolithic, centralised corporate silos and take a look at free-as-in-freedom, open, decentralised, distributed, federated alternatives without billions of advertising budget.

I am no big fan of Zuckerberg, but this could be the death of twitter and good riddance.

Threads app: Instagram owner’s Twitter rival logs 5 million users in first hours

Zuck has announced to add ActivityPub support and connect Threads to the Fediverse.

If it doesn't add anything else until then, it'd surpass Mastodon in both user numbers and lack of features.

But I don't really expect Meta to be stupid enough to include a migration feature that lets you move from Threads to elsewhere in the Fediverse that isn't owned by a trillion-dollar gigacorporation.

There is a pattern here.

[laughs in decentralisation]

 

[WolfEyes]

Lots of subreddits have been relaunched as Lemmy communities or /kbin magazines recently by the same people.

It may finally be worth for a few more people to take a step outside monolithic, centralised corporate silos and take a look at free-as-in-freedom, open, decentralised, distributed, federated alternatives without billions of advertising budget.

I don't even like Reddit.

I have never been inside. I've hated Corporate America since I was a child in the 60s.

 

[Free]

I have never been inside.

 

[WolfEyes]

 

[Jupiter Rowland]

I don't even like Reddit.

I have never been inside. I've hated Corporate America since I was a child in the 60s.

Then let me tell you that while Lemmy is functionally similar to Reddit, it's as un-Corporate America as it ever comes.

It's Free, Libre, Open-Source Software. It's decentralised with countless independent, non-commercial instances rather than one corporate silo. And the two maintainers are one staunch Maoist and one Ché Guevara re-incarnate. They're so communist that one of their own instances is avoided by everyone but complete, clueless newbies because it seems tankie-friendly, and the other one is as thoroughly and openly tankie as they ever come.

(Tankies = communists who worship Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Kim Il-sung & Co. including all their respective atrocities. Or even for their atrocities.)

 

[WolfEyes]

Then let me tell you that while Lemmy is functionally similar to Reddit, it's as un-Corporate America as it ever comes.

It's Free, Libre, Open-Source Software. It's decentralised with countless independent, non-commercial instances rather than one corporate silo. And the two maintainers are one staunch Maoist and one Ché Guevara re-incarnate. They're so communist that one of their own instances is avoided by everyone but complete, clueless newbies because it seems tankie-friendly, and the other one is as thoroughly and openly tankie as they ever come.

(Tankies = communists who worship Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Kim Il-sung & Co. including all their respective atrocities. Or even for their atrocities.)

Communist? WTAF? Do you always insult people you don't know anything about?

 

[Veritable Quandry]

The post was not calling you a communist.

The point as I understand it is that Lemmy is an option that is not corporate owned but with a warning that some servers are full of tankies so avoid the two main instances.

 

[WolfEyes]

The post was not calling you a communist.

The point as I understand it is that Lemmy is an option that is not corporate owned but with a warning that some servers are full of tankies so avoid the two main instances.

I understood the part about Lemmy being an option. I didn't ask for one or any.

I made 2 true statements about myself. Where he got the idea I'm looking for some kind of non-corporate social media, I don't know. Never said I was looking, which I'm not. I didn't ask for any information. So that was pure assumption on his part.

To someone who does not and never has used platforms like Twitter, and therefore knows little to nothing about them, none of it made any sense to me. It looked to me more like I was being directed to specific places that I would be absolutely livid with a white-hot wrath to encounter.

I do apologize for the kneejerk reaction. I changed it a couple of times before I posted it so, yeah. It was a bit unsettling to be suddenly pushed into deep water. The Cold War never really ended, it just went underground.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Being called a communist is a compliment.

Spoiler

 

[Jupiter Rowland]

Communist? WTAF? Do you always insult people you don't know anything about?

It's known all across the Fediverse, except for absolute newbies, that the two creators and maintainers of Lemmy are, to put it mildly, communists. They don't even try to hide it. In fact, they're very proud of it. All they deny is that they support atrocities against human rights upon communist order (Tiananmen Square 1989, Mao's and Stalin's mass-murders etc). All this is the very reason why the official instances lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml have Mali's TLD: It doesn't stand for Mali, though, it stands for Marxism-Leninism.

Also, LEMMYGRAD.ml. Official instance run by the two creators and developers. Named after what the Russian city of St. Petersburg was called when it was still part of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, namely Leningrad, in turn named after V.I. Lenin himself. Not to mention that the instance is adorned with hammer-and-sickle in one logo and the silhouette of a Soviet tank in the other, and that the users are being referred to as "comrades".

Many people actually already steer clear of lemmy.ml because it has that tankie stench. lemmygrad.ml is overtly and unabashedly hardcore tankie and takes pride in it.

 

[Soen Eber]

Wonders if there is an NDN, non-profit, public (as in Public Radio, etc) or public service owned instance of Lemmy, Mastadon, or any other non-commercial platform.

 

[WolfEyes]

It's known all across the Fediverse, except for absolute newbies, that the two creators and maintainers of Lemmy are, to put it mildly, communists. They don't even try to hide it. In fact, they're very proud of it. All they deny is that they support atrocities against human rights upon communist order (Tiananmen Square 1989, Mao's and Stalin's mass-murders etc). All this is the very reason why the official instances lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml have Mali's TLD: It doesn't stand for Mali, though, it stands for Marxism-Leninism.

Also, LEMMYGRAD.ml. Official instance run by the two creators and developers. Named after what the Russian city of St. Petersburg was called when it was still part of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, namely Leningrad, in turn named after V.I. Lenin himself. Not to mention that the instance is adorned with hammer-and-sickle in one logo and the silhouette of a Soviet tank in the other, and that the users are being referred to as "comrades".

Many people actually already steer clear of lemmy.ml because it has that tankie stench. lemmygrad.ml is overtly and unabashedly hardcore tankie and takes pride in it.

Ok Looks like I'm going to have to spell it out for you. I don't care. I'm not interested. I'm not on Mastodon or any of those and I do not want to be. Especially if you must have a smartphone/cellphone to register for the platform (looking at Twitter's bs here). Never going to happen.

Other than this forum, I don't do social media. Too many control freaks out there.

 

[WolfEyes]

Wonders if there is an NDN, non-profit, public (as in Public Radio, etc) or public service owned instance of Lemmy, Mastadon, or any other non-commercial platform.

There's the radio station at Barrow, Alaska but I'm too far away to pick it up.

Although my fav DJ did live stream his show. I wonder if he still works there.

 

[Free]

 

[WolfEyes]

I swear. There's a Monty Python for everything.