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submitted 2 months ago by rosahaj to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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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[-] rosahaj 8 points 2 months ago

Just wanted to pop in and say, I am so glad so many of you are taking this to heart! I am sitting here with a genuine smile on my face, which for reference NEVER happens. Thank you everyone!

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

Make a nice poster that encourages people to not just lurk, or dig one up if there's an old post. Post it weekly in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

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[-] Oofnik@kbin.earth 8 points 2 months ago

I got you rosahaj! I'll try to be better this year!

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[-] truxnell@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago

On one hand yeah! But on the other, I'm not fully sure we want the Reddit chain of comments that add nothing to the conversation?

[-] rosahaj 6 points 2 months ago

You aren't entirely wrong, but I feel it could help build an appearance of high activity, which would help attract people. Also; many people wish to contribute but stifle the words before they can come out of their mouth, and I'm hoping a post like this could be the push they needed.

[-] truxnell@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's a fair call, I think I'll push send more often from now on!

Honestly half the reason I don't post these days is more not wanting to feed LLMs/dox myself further, but that's a whole other can of worms

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Hear, hear!

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah I’m guilty of that. I posted to Reddit today, but not Lemmy. I’ve been telling my friends to switch to federated social media, but I still find myself slipping back to Reddit. Not because I like Reddit better but because they have more content or I already know where to look for specific content. But I’m going to try and post more. Thanks for the reminder!

[-] rosahaj 7 points 2 months ago

be the change you want to see in the world! sincerely, the new owner and moderator of !falloutmods@lemmy.world and !fallout@lemmy.world, respectively

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[-] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

wish I could upvote this a thousand times

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[-] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

We need to get more people to adopt the Fediverse. The issue is lack of engagement.

[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I jumped on board with the reddit API fiasco. I use Sync primarily since I'm familiar with the format and I browse and post often.

I think one problem is that it's confusing to your average Joe. I honestly still don't quite understand how it works. I see posts like .ml and .world and I have no idea what they are even though I've been here a while.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

100%! Been doing it for a year.

Also, I find a nice way to fill my feed is to liberally subscribe to communities on Lemmy. I'm currently subscribed to 133. I set my feed to Subscribed+Scaled and that works incredibly well to show me what I care about. Then when I get bored, I flip to All+TopDay to get what I missed that day.

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[-] Ketchup@reddthat.com 7 points 2 months ago

Love that sentiment. And I love the fediverse. Thanks to every developer and every one of us using this. I deleted Reddit in 2022 and never looked back, thanks to all of you. I use my phone a little less, and YouTube is the only thing I still use that’s not federated.

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[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It would be great to have a fediverse service for Meetup. Bending Spoons is aggressively enshittifying the original site, definitely ripe for disruption.

[-] rosahaj 6 points 2 months ago

i have never used meetup, does mobilizon seem a decent fit? https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

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[-] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

I don't think advertising here is necessary 😉

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[-] Lennnny@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yes sir/ma'am/person!

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this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2025
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