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With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it's scary. And so I'd like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.

I personally hate it when I'm stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you're reading this, the likely chance is you're the same.

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn't of enough substance to be worth anyone's time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won't have to visit walled gardens so often.

Thank you :)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Not using other social media annymore. Lemmy was my first introduction to the fediverse. Now I am also using Mastodon and experiment with a hubzilla hub on my homeserver.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't think advertising here is necessary ๐Ÿ˜‰

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's not saying "everyone come to lemmy" it's saying "everyone post more an reinvigorate communities".

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They posted the same on reddit. It's an open letter to humans.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Ok. I'll start commenting more literally right now.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2025 year of the fediverse???

Jokes aside, i completely agree. Meta and Xitter completely shot themselves in the foot (lol) and pixelfed is gaining mainstream attention, and the new year just started!

I predict we'll gain a massive influx of new users next year, due to the kindness of Zucc and Muskrat ๐Ÿ˜Š

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there a list or links somewhere of the defederated basic site replacements?

Like I know about Lemmy (replacement for reddit), Loops (replacement for ticktock/reels), and pixelfed (replacement for insta). Oh and I switched from Spotify to tidal. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

Is there a YouTube replacement? Thats really the next big media channel I use daily..

Thanks Lemmy friends ๐Ÿ’œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is a good place to start: https://fedidb.org/software/

I like the idea of PeerTube and hope it catches on, but I wouldn't call it a YouTube replacement at this point. There are services that feed youtube content to users remotely though (there is/was a link-converter bot that went around that annoyed some people here, but a) can't remember the name, and b) can't remember the actual software involved).

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Piped bot I believe it was called?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yโ€™know what, here I am! This is such a genuine request.

Thank you, friend! This post may very well be the tipping point for many Lemmings/Fediversers, myself included.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Small instance owner here. All are welcome. We have one really busy community here, and a few others that are just getting going that you might find interesting. You like World of Warships? The Last of Us? St. Louis Battlehawks? Abandoned Buildings?

You'll notice some of these communities are a ghost town. Images are broken and there's a rat eating pizza. So step up. Avoid the large, overwhelmed, weirdly-political instances and give us little guys a chance.

I'll begin by introducing myself. Hi! I am oleorun, named after the recently deceased Bob Uecker's Baseball Hall of Fame speech. My instance, https://real.lemmy.fan/, is known for the [email protected] community, but we have more to offer. [email protected] , a college radio station, [email protected] , and more communities waiting to be joined, and built, and best of all there's no ads, no donation requests, just pure love of a federated instance that thrives on niceness.

I'd be real happy for you to join us.

[email protected]

Edit: Typos

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, ...

I think I'm fully maxxed out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (9 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm back after a year away. My two favourite niche interests (wrestling & fantasy books) still don't have hugely active communities but I'll start pitching in again with some lukewarm takes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What fantasy book community is it? I've been looking for one and haven't found one yet

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably [email protected]

Not the most active, but didn't find anything better

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

That's the one

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Iโ€™ve started explaining this to non-techies. Hopefully starting to gain a little traction as the meta/ticktock machine becomes more and more egregious. Also this is speeding up the homelab Iโ€™m building.

Iโ€™d add the appropriate meme but Iโ€™m new here.

Iโ€™m doing my part .gif
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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