The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
  • @Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81•5 months ago

    The thing about Mastodon for influencers is… you don’t even have to leave Twitter. Just post to both.

    If enough people get into that habit, it makes the transition much easier for everyone.

    • @sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12•5 months ago

      Twitter is very friendly to influencers because it automatically boosts popular posts and hashtags. Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.

      That’s an okay decision to take, but it makes it hard to grow the network because there’s a lower financial incentive.

      • @pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8•5 months ago

        Mastodon doesn’t by design

        There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.

  • @CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58•5 months ago

    What’s happening right now is eerily close to the “Gleichschaltung” that happened after Hitler took over Germany, basically bringing all media in line with the will of the party and the leader. It was news media then, it is social media now. Because for many people, social media is their primary news source.

      • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        11•5 months ago

        The smaller alternatives will get bigger as the mainstream social media gets worse and worse. The job for us, in whatever way we can, is to build the alternatives and make them ready to handle the influx, and make them welcoming to new people.

  • @Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55•5 months ago

    It blows my mind that places like the transit systems that were on Twitter haven’t migrated over to their own Mastodon server. They’re not that hard to set up, and there’s so little risk when you just don’t accept public signups on your domain.

    • @DharkStare@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32•5 months ago

      I agree. The Fediverse stuff is really well suited for governments and businesses. They can be in complete control of their instance, post whatever information they want distributed, and they don’t need to rely on any other business for it.

      • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        From talking to someone involved in local government software, it seemed to me like there is a push in the opposite direction from that; they want and are moving towards offloading as much as possible to third party software vendors.

    • @JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16•5 months ago

      Completely agree! Seeing the dumb little logos all over timetables and the sides of buses always makes me roll my eyes. First they had to change the “t” logo to the bird, then that’s out of date on a billionaire’s whim and they have to replace it with the apocalyptic “X”. Come on guys, this is getting embarrassing. Stop treating big private companies like Daddy, it’s time to stand on your own feet. The tools are there.

    • YerboutiEnglish
      11•5 months ago

      Especially for Redditors, Lemmy is such a no-brainer alternative. I think I’m gonna try to do more, and try to bring some of my audio communities out here by promoting Lemmy in the subs.

    • Avid AmoebaEnglish
      10•5 months ago

      Did hit it. Keep servicing that thread, you’re doing well. It’s blowing up a bit.

      Repost this in other communities in Lemmy. Shitpost, technology, etc.

      • Avid AmoebaEnglish
        13•5 months ago

        Oh no. Centralized social media fights back! 😂

            • @spaduf@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
              5•5 months ago

              Didn’t say but I’m pretty sure it’s because I edited to add lemmy specific information. In particular I mentioned the apps

                • @pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  7•5 months ago

                  Welcome.

                  The biggest thing you have to learn is that everything defaults to “active” instead of “hot.” If it seems stale after setting the primary to “hot” in your settings, choose “top 6 hours” and “top 12 hours” to see more content. It’s not as addicting so it takes a little time to settle in to the calmness, but it’s great after you get used to it.

    • @ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7•5 months ago

      lmao clicked that link and one of the first comments I see is “reddit is pretty decentralized”

      I get that 404 needs to make money but this article could greatly benefit from not being paywalled. Or at least list a definition of what decentralized social media is with some actual recommendations before the paywall because people clearly have no fucking clue

  • Avid AmoebaEnglish
    15•5 months ago

    Go and sprinkle the simplest keywords in the thread - Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed - and tell them your experience.

  • @jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15•5 months ago

    How much of the fediverse runs on AWS and how willing do we think besos would be to pull the plug on those?