I don’t really read news in English anymore, but when I did, I subscribed to the economist. I found most other news sites were too biased and ignored most of the world.
I don’t really read news in English anymore, but when I did, I subscribed to the economist. I found most other news sites were too biased and ignored most of the world.
Kmail on desktop and the native sailfish email client on my phone.
Yeah, I use ublock origin. I don’t like the ad model and many ads on the web are privacy invasive. I’m not averse paying for content (something I’m doing for some of it) but I won’t watch ads to fund creators.
I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.
I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.
I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I’m used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It’s worked really well, the biggest drawback I’d say is that parts of it are not open source and they’re kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone
I use SMS and Matrix. I’d love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it’s been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.
I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I’ve heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I’ve been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don’t see why both can’t exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.
I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I’ve used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.
Currently I’m subscribing to all of the “major” ones and hoping in time one will win out in time.
Nope.
I have used federated tools like identi.ca, pump.io and diaspora and I’ve also have a mastodon account, however I almost never posted to these and I rarely log in and follow everyone. I have accounts because I work closely with federation and want federated social media to succeed but I don’t like the twitter format. I have friends which use them but it’s just a flood of posts from friends and I love my friends, but they have interests and hobbies which I don’t share and I have lots of interests and hobbies they don’t share.
I’ve always enjoyed the interest specific communities much better, I generally don’t care who is saying things, I care about what they say and if it’s interesting or informative. I love the model of you go to places which are interesting and everyone upvotes and curates a collection of interesting links and posts and then discusses them. I am really glad we now have that for the fediverse. I knew lemmy existed, but never signed up for it until the reddit shenanigans started because, at the end of the day it’s social and it needs users to be interesting, now reddit has given lemmy users and for that I’m grateful :)
Trust in admin(s).
You’re trusting the person running your instance to do a good job, to provide good hardware and keep it running, to ensure it isn’t de-federated from other instances, to provide Lemmy software updates, to not ban you or vanish one day.
Really, I don’t know who my admins are, I’ve read a few posts and they seem pretty good, but I’ve not seen them before. But really, this is what it will come down to in the long run.
I agree actually, when I was joining Lemmy a few days ago I looked at a few instances and they all asked me to write a burb why I wanted to join that instance. I get it and I think that’s a good way of curating a community but I wanted to switch to Lemmy right then, not in a few days when my application is reviewed.
I ended up on sh.itjust.works which didn’t ask for any of that and just gave me an account, but I think quite a few people like me won’t want to wait until their application is approved.
I’m wondering if there’s anything motivated users of Lemmy can do to help out and make the transition for folks easy.
I want Lemmy to succeed and fir people trying it out to like it and stay.
Fix the deletion of comments so that the content is removed rather than just flagged as deleted.
Yeah it does, when you delete some content it creates a “delete” activity which is sent out to all the servers that content was shared with. Those instances should remove the content on their side too, of course there is no way to ensure the content that has been shared is deleted, but activitypub does have a mechanism to delete content that has been federated.
I didn’t know it was privacy focused or that they were building their own index, that’s really cool. Do you think it’s worth the money?
I agree with this. I love the fediverse and have been using it in some form for quite a long time. I’ve checked in on lemmy periodically over the last year or so, but ultimately I spent a lot of time reading topics on somewhat niece subjects and so the lack of posts has been a huge factor.
It feels like it takes one of these self-imploding events to really cause people to move as one to something else.
I deleted my throwaways weeks ago, but I deleted my main account earlier today. I lurked more than I posted which I guess means I don’t have a lot of the history a lot of others have with their account but I posted every so often and had the account for years.
Even so, reddit has made it a place I don’t want to be, I want them to know that (by falling user numbers) and I also worry reddit will make it more difficult in the future to get rid of your account.
I don’t know of any specific knitting community, but I’d love to join one if someone makes one
Nope, you only need one account. It works like email, it dosn’t matter if you’re on gmail, yahoo or fastmail, you can still send and receive emails from other providers. You can subscribe to communities on other instances and post comments or submit new posts regardless of which instance the community is on.
I’ve found this too. Generally if I’m okay waiting for the answer I’ll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.
Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information