Preston Maness ☭

TikTok remains ascendent

Which is a damn shame, because it’s unusable for literally anything other than sharing alienated, one-off videos. TikTok are masters at keeping people inside their app and nowhere else.

Discord is probably the tool best-suited to capture users’ social needs right now. It’s definitely the best Reddit alternative we have.

Sure, Discord chats are great, particularly for smaller communities/IRL friends. But as an alternative to subreddits or classic forums they’re absolute rubbish. Lemmy seems to be the only real game in that town for now.

Every time I see “to learn more, come hang with us in our Discord,” I die a little. Discord is a chat application. It isn’t meant to be a repository of knowledge for your app/service. That’s what your website is for. And it’s not a substitute for a proper knowledgebase or documentation either.

I see a lot of posts about how lemmy.ml admins are deleting any posts critical of Russia & China. Are there any receipts for those claims? I haven’t seen any actual proof, just a whole lot of people saying tankie.

The modlogs show that the moderators there are doing their job. If folks wanna continue uncritically regurgitating NATO propaganda and McCarthyism, they can do it elsewhere. Though I will admit, the irony of thousands of people fleeing a capitalist sinking ship, to a ship built and run by communists, only to then complain about all the communists, is funny.

The irony of having to hardlink to lemmygrad rather than just cross-post because your instance has decided, that out of all the hives of scum and villainy, lemmygrad is one of two that must be defederated.

I’d rather keep the different mediums separate. I have fundamentally different expectations of a medium like Lemmy, which is async, and Matrix, which is synchronous.

BaconReader was one of the first Android apps I paid money for, IIRC. It was that good of an experience on mobile way back when.

They can serve you ads just fine on mobile web, that’s not it. It’s that the app let’s them track your behavior far better than the web browser.

It’s both. Firefox for Android lets you run uBlockOrigin, effectively killing the ads.

“It kinda feels like my filter bubble is being pierced. Can we fix that?”

I get what you’re saying, but as of now a lot of people new to the concept of the Fediverse just don’t care. They’re going to join the instances with the most people. Like the Mastodon migration, this will inevitibly result in a “default” instance regardless of how people feel. Not sure if that’ll change, unless something forces people to realize maintaining the decentralized aspect of these servives is very important.

The masses need not understand the importance of decentralization. Only the admins of the instances do. And when admins seek to compulsively accumulate users en masse, rather than close off registration and route to other instances, it’s a pretty obvious tell as to what they’re doing.

I feel like you’re ascribing way to much to leftists when far right and libertarians were fleeing reddit too. Like, it’s not just the left that interest in a non-corporate environment.

Liberals are not “leftists,” and they are not of “the left.” Liberalism is a right-wing ideology (just not as right-wing) and as such, is devoted to capitalism.

I don’t think tinwhiskers has problems with communists. If they had problem with communists, they would surely have said “communists”.

They said “tankies”. I am more inclined to suggest their issue is with tankies, not communists.

“Tankie” is a pejorative for Marxist-Leninist, the most successful approach to building communism in all of history, responsible for improving the material conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before seen in history. Anyone who unironically uses “tankie” as a pejorative in the 21st century is thoroughly anti-communist, be it intentionally or otherwise.

Don’t sign up to lemmy.ml or you’ll need to sign up again on a new instance when they get defederated. Tankies. I guess a blind eye is being turned right now because numbers are important for survival atm, but I wouldn’t consider it a future-proof instance.

It never ceases to amuse me that throngs of liberals, fleeing from yet another capitalist centralized service doing what capitalist centralized services do, are so quick to denigrate the work of the communists that made their flight to an alternative possible in the first place. We wouldn’t have Lemmy – and the numerous improvements to Groups in the ActivityPub standard – if it weren’t for communists like them.

Also, LemmyGrad.ml has most of the “tankies.” Lemmy.ml is more generically socialist.

I fully expect .world to become the default at some point, it statistically has more active users and is outgrowing .ml at a rapid pace.

The whole point of federation is that there is no such thing as “the default.” As soon as that happens, it becomes Just Another Reddit Clone.

Last I heard they had plans to integrate into it, but nothing active yet.

I’ll be interested to see if they try to keep the money happy by trying to kill porn on reddit. If they try that reddit would be in worse shape than Trump.

Worked out so great for Tumblr. But apparently the plan is to take all the worst ideas from the past couple years and speedrun 'em, so I wouldn’t be surprised.

It definitely feels like they’re going for a world record in the “kill your golden goose as fast as possible” category.

I approve.