23h ago

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It's brief, around 25:15

If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

Fediverse @lemmy.ml

beefnugget @lemmy.world

15h ago

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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Not Lemmy though. Based.
- Not based.
- Yeah I think it's best we don't advertise this place. It's a little strange.
  
  Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
  
  It has its own charm once you get used to it lmao
  
  Well, reddit has nothing at this point, so it's better than the competition.
  
  The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.
  
  Be the change you want to see
  
  Ain't nobody wanna see that.
  
  Being humble is sexy!
  
  Only you
  
  How much do you need!?????!
  
  What exactly does a DragonTypeWyvern tail look like? Is it long with scales?
  
  Depends on the kind of wyvern
  
  What about the dragon type?
  
  Don't forget the Trekkies.
  
  I see a lot more Trek memes here than on reddit and I love every one
  
  There we go. I was waiting to be represented.
  
  A flying squid, too.
  
  Don't forget Margot Robbie
  
  Wait how is Squid this popular? 😂
  
  He has the most posts and comments on the Lemmy activity scoreboard.
  
  I'd say it is more notoriety than popularity.
  
  Its not, this incident will be reported to the nearest democracy officer.
  
  Also dull people
  
  Thanks (⁠･⁠–⁠･⁠)⁠ ⁠\⁠(⁠･⁠◡⁠･⁠)⁠/
  
  And knives.
  And beans.
  
  Also, porn.
  Where is this abhorrent content? I need to know so i can avoid it....
  
  Is sh.itjust.works not federated with lemmynsfw.com? Or maybe you use a Front page or Local feed. Here on world (no comment on the instance wars), lemmynsfw communities pretty regularly show up on my All feed. Seems like whatever they do with posts over there really makes the "Active" sorter happy, if you know what I mean
  
  That's what I was wondering. For a while I swear naked images of Rinkunn were more prevalent than The Picard Maneuver. I'm an All user mostly out of curiosity but disappointed that I think world defederated from one of the major furry ones cause that dropped considerably.
  Wait, is disappointed the right word? I guess it is, although maybe i just miss their positivity. I'm still cool with hexbear being defederated, after all. Lol
  
  It definitely was federated back when I made my acct here, as I had to block it lmao.
  
  Thanks, Stefon.
  
  Often most of those at the same time.
  
  *porn involving some or all of the above
  
  Don’t forget the No Poop Challenge
  
  I could see people promoting Piefed and Mbin instead.
  
  We need to get more people in here if we want it to actually be a Reddit competitor. Right now it’s good for some communities, but smaller ones are still extremely underpopulated.
  
  I've seen the moist cat mbin instance being promoted a few times in RedditAlternative before I move here, actually. it's one of my considerations jumping instances actually.
  
  It's no different than reddit, DIGG, or the Something Awful forums before they got popular.
  
  Which is why it's based that it wasn't promoted
  
  As long as no one sells off Lemmy, which is impossible now...
  
  It's good to have some friends, but don't let too many normies in.....
  
  We reached a point a while ago where yall saying shit like this became the "normies"
  
  a while ago where yall saying shit like this became the “normies”
  Ohh it's normal for us. But there are still a lot of sports all-consuming, rabble rousing, linux hating, clue collar people still on Reddit, any I don't mind them staying over there.
  
  Nieche communities are very quiet here though.
  
  They are, probably even too quiet. But the level of griefers, bots and trolls is very very low, and selfishly, I REALLY like that.

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