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Happy #GlobalSwitchDay (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[-] GrammarPolice@sh.itjust.works 4 points 45 minutes ago

Mastodon ❌

Bluesky ✅

[-] franklin@lemmy.world 3 points 34 minutes ago* (last edited 32 minutes ago)

Unfortunately that does seem to be the way it's going, I give Bluesky 8 years before it's as bad as current day X.

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 hours ago

How is signal considered part of the fediverse?

[-] Winterfrost@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Fediverse is awesome!!

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

Are any of these actually good?

I mean, aside from Lemmy. I tried Mastadon and no one was actually on it, seems like everyone is jumping to Bluesky.

[-] lysol@lemmy.world 2 points 21 minutes ago

Depends on how many you follow. Lemmy is way more dead than Mastodon for me.

[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago

I can vouch for Signal. I got my whole family out of facebook messenger to make a new place for family chat. Even my parents in their mid 60s had no problem changing.

[-] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 hours ago

I can vouch for Matrix unfortunately it is not listed and instead they mentioned Signal which is further from the fediverse.

[-] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

no one was actually on it

It might feel that way at first, but my Mastodon feed is very robust nowadays. You just need to follow more people.

[-] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

People only move to Bluesky because they don't want to change their thinking (picking instances is hard!) and keep using "Twitter".

[-] dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

I can understand it. I was banned without reason from 3 of the top mastodon instances before even posting anything. Creating new accounts is a hassle, and it's easy to lose faith in the system when bans happen without reason and none of the instances cared to respond to my appeals. In heinsight, I'm sure the ban was due to my username looking like a hash, but I still find it crazy that the appeals were ignored.

[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I've seen some authors I like on Mastodon, like William Gibson. It's a quieter place but I like that about it, as someone who never used Twitter.

[-] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

instead of switching ive mostly just been ditching entirely. I need less time interacting with internet people.

literally the only thing on this list im still using is facebook messenger, for my work colleagues. and youtube. everything else ive migrated (reddit-lemmy), or abandoned and torched

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Only ones I use are YouTube and fb marketplace because Craigslist is totally dead here, but it's from an alt account I've never used for anything at all.

[-] Temperche@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

Check out Flohmarkt https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt Instance list here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 hour ago

I will definitely check that out and try to use it before checking marketplace, but I honestly can't imagine I'll find anyone selling anything near me. I'm fairly rural, and even the nearest "city" isn't exactly a thriving metropolis.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 18 points 8 hours ago

I was already on Mastodon by just having a Vivaldi (the chromium browser) account, and it's just lovely I've spent most of the day setting up lemmy, even though I joined feddit.dk 2 years ago, it's only just now I'm taking it seriously.
And, while not related to the fediverse per se, I switched to linux a year ago.
The only service that's hard to drop/switch away from is Youtube imo.

[-] breadcat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 hours ago

I keep seeing this type stuff but neither peertube or friendica are genuine replacements at this point, mastodon is weaksauce compared to akkoma or a misskey fork, and loops is alpha software. also yes signal is centralized but it just works and has contact discovery so it owns matrix and xmpp when compared to whatsapp. basically none of this stuff is truly ready

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 8 hours ago

As software, PeerTube is great and there’s actually plenty of content to consume if you can find it. The more content creators we can get to use PeerTube, the more appealing PeerTube will also become.

Check this link out, if looking for content: https://peertube.wtf/

[-] megrania@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 hour ago

"If you can find it" ... that's the crucial point I suppose ... but without a discovery algorithm, interesting creators, and a VAST content archive, it can hardly be called an "alternative" for YouTube.

When I was looking into it I found the best use case was to use it as a self-hosted video archive to replace/extend my Vimeo. At least at that point, all instances that were remotely interesting were not taking any users, and the generic ones seemed to be very far away from what I'm doing content-wise.

And I guess as long as that's the case, and you have no ways to monetize content nor any significant reach due to the federated fragmentation, I don't think it's an interesting software/federated platform for creators ...

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 45 minutes ago

Check this link out: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115 for servers and have a look at https://peertube.wtf/ for some of the content available on PeerTube.

If you are a content creator, you need to take the first step. Viewers will come after you, not before.

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[-] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 hours ago

Friendica seems like a new thing? No apps for that yet either

[-] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 31 minutes ago

I heard that it was one of the earliest Fediverse projects. It just hadn't surged in popularity like Mastodon and Lemmy had after the Twitter and Reddit exodus.