Get some Chinese investors and a couple affiliate links…what could go wrong

Sounds like they are saying (later this month) you can create your own Bluesky instance…but will they ever federate outside that?

Seems like a lot of words just to say that running servers (I mean instances) is too expensive to be self sustaining. I’m not smart enough to know if that’s true or not.

I vote for you to be my representative at the federation summit

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In saying we are here I’m not saying we are succeeding…I’m saying we’re trying

Same is true about Reddit but we all here

YouTube is so horrible now I hope it’s reaching the tipping point where even non tech people may get sick of it and look elsewhere. There is no reason to have ONE giant main fucking video site and that’s it for most of the English speaking world. I need to look up how to do grout…or open this smoke detector…or beat this video game…no reason that all these videos cannot be hosted via other websites or just self hosted with the affordability of bandwidth. I’ve loved most of what google has done for a long time and they won the browser wars, crushed Mapquest, destroyed hotmail and yahoo mail…now everything is turning to shit. Google search all but refuses to find what you’re searching for. 15 second video…30 second ad. No.

I don’t know if federation is the answer but YouTube being ubiquitous for internet video has got to go.

Weren’t what?

I have a few feelings about it. First, I’m an average middle-aged middle-class straight white cisgendered male and the TikTok algorithm feeds me tons of stuff that is very pro feminism, pro trans rights, anti racist, pro labor. In a very touching and uplifting way a lot of times, actually. I’m a boring person but VERY passionate about these socially liberal issues and it gives me what I want and need to feel like a force of good, keep up with social issues, stay involved in some way feel passionate. My TikTok feed is woke as shit and good for me. I simply don’t see this on Facebook, YouTube and all the rest. I don’t see it. Of course everyone’s algorithm is different…

So maybe TikTok uses my attention for evil…data harvesting, influencing, hacking…I don’t know. I don’t trust china any more or less than most people. But how much do we trust meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft etc? I don’t particularly.

I may just be naive…but I do see a lot of good things that TikTok does, as dumb as it sounds.

Awesome!

Love Ice Cubes for Mastodon and Voyager for Lemmy. I’ve tried to use others besides wefwef/Voyager but after soooo many years using Apollo it just feels so comfy. Navigation, the font, the way things are organized and displayed. I’m a creature of habit. I am hoping more features are added like a solid text editor, add photos to comments, user profiles, messaging…

I probably should keep trying others and at least test them & leave good reviews so the feddiverse keeps building and apps can compete with other social medial bullshit.

Why is it necessary to post this to so many different cimmunities?

Yea you can it’s in the settings on the web version

I’m trying to use it like Twitter where I find people and organizations to follow who are funny or interesting…but the majority of people “boost” other stuff more than they post. This gets problematic for me because you just follow a few accounts and suddenly your feed is so full you can’t read through it all. I want it to be manageable… I want to follow people I enjoy reading…but I don’t necessarily want to see 30 posts a day that they like. Maybe I’m using it wrong or thinking about it wrong. I enjoy some things about it and I’m happy it exists, but I’m having trouble finding a lot posts and users that I find super engaging.

I follow probably 30 Lemmy communities and scrolling through the feed brings me much more that is interesting, beautiful, funny, insightful…

Never understood what was appealing about place and will not be attempting to understand. But if it makes people happy…whatever