Yeah for sure! That’s the way to go :)
It might have sounded like I have an iPhone and that’s not the case. I said we lost the ability to swap batteries as a way to say the market is going there. As you said you have to look for it now when it was by default in the beginning.
But if we simply accept it we will lose it, we have to try to promote companies that care for the user and avoid the ones who don’t as you do!
There’s different grades to things. It’s not black and white and some companies do more harmful stuff than others.
There are reparable phones and reparable laptops, some companies try to push for it and if they don’t get people’s support they will disappear.
We have even lost the ability to swap the batteries and the consumer can put pressure so some of this stuff doesn’t happen.
They are still testing it and it’s not open source yet so no, no one can open instances. You can join the queue: https://loops.video/ but the android app has to be side loaded.
But before saying to people I would wait until it launches officially.
Very clear and nice video!
With that said, I was a bit disappointed when I joined the Fediverse about the interaction between social medias. I usually used reddit and very little twitter and I was excited when I saw the Fediverse and that you could even follow from other Social media but from lemmy you cannot follow people from mastodon and from mastodon you can technically follow communities but you see all replies and the feed becomes overwhelming while in Lemmy I choose if I open the comment section for a specific entry.
So I ended up with the same number of accounts on the fediverse than in centralized platforms which is fine but I think Fediverse sells this too much. For me decentralization is a good enough point to stay.
And about the AI thingy and the feeds, I think we are just seeing the early Fediverse same as early internet but I’m sure in the future we will have apps that create a feed for you if you want to so to me that’s something that we also shouldn’t sell as a positive OR negative. I think this is something that will simply change as the Fediverse grows.
But this is not a criticism of the video! Just my personal thoughts :)
Honestly it’s a hard topic and I keep changing my mind on it. But currently this is my view:
If you point everyone to one place decentralization loses the meaning. I think people need to learn what decentralization is. It’s an important issue to be honest and people have to be on board knowing what they are doing. It will be hard for sure but otherwise if a new centralized competitor comes into town, why wouldn’t they switch if they don’t care?
At the moment twitter is the most affected social media but people has to understand that this isn’t just about twitter or reddit or whatever but about our rights to choose and decide where we want our data and who handles that. If people don’t know the system they won’t be aware of the issues.
With the Fediverse I’ve seen a lot of people worried about privacy and so on because they have to choose and suddenly they think about all the consequences. That’s a good thing that hopefully will make them think twice about joining the next new centralized system.
I would love to follow communities and only see the posts but when you do, you see every single comment making it impossible to follow a community from there :(
A language is not a topic that’s why it makes sense and rules on servers that are on your language (and probably your own country) probably will have rules more aligned with your vision too. It makes sense on a moderation point of view.
A server that is about technology or art, doesn’t say anything about how they might allow their users to behave. I just think it’s misleading and the focus of a server shouldn’t be about things you like but the way you like to be treated and how they manage your data which is at the end what they handle.
I think it’s a bad idea to have each server have one topic which I know is often how Fediverse is sold but I think it’s not good.
I don’t know you but I have more than one interest and I don’t want a server to be about one interest and that’s it. I want the server to be fair and have rules about discrimination and so on. I can choose the topics I want to follow thanks to federation that’s the whole point, the server should focus on the moderation side.
Same as before: you have to take that into consideration only if you want. Probably you never cared at all when you signed to a new app in big corporation and just gave away all your data but now that there are options suddenly everyone cares and it’s annoying.
This are important topics, it was time to take them seriously. This is precisely why federation is important - the instances and users can moderate, it’s not a single organism that has absolute control over eveything.
Referencing Matrix when he says “why do my eyes hurt” just after waking from Matrix… It’s the same here: we will all get use to have more freedom of choice, now it seems more complicated because we never had that freedom and never worried about a lot of topics that are important.
I mean it’s really depressing even being in Europe honestly but at the same time it’s a huge opportunity. It’s time to take it :) Let’s show them how decentralization AND open source can be a new standard! I’m seeing the same trend in Linux too and this is so important as well.
Also a lot of new projects to help decentralization are emerging, check https://spritely.institute/ which there’s Christine Lemmer-Webber a co-author of the ActivityPub protocol :)
I agree with the whole thing but remember that the Fediverse as it grows it will face the same challenges as any other social media does when it grows. I 100% agree that it’s important that social media has to be decentralized and away from corporations but as people join the Fediverse, corporations will pick up on that and I’m sure we will end up with private companies doing apps for the Fediverse that will contain algorithms and all that kind of stuff. (I mean you can already see threads which is federated with the Fediverse).
Having the Fediverse doesn’t guarantee that everything will be nice and good (though it’s a very important step) but the same that happens with e-mail nowadays with google that we are all almost using the same platform even though it is a decentralized system and it’s not open source.
The Fediverse is decentralized AND open source nowadays but that doesn’t mean it’s how it will always be. I hope people remembers in the future that it’s important to support the open source platforms we have in the early days and they don’t jump ships when a private company opens a new fancy app. Let’s remember the lessons we just learned and remember, we currently have a decentralized AND open source social media because we have a lot of people doing hard work on it, let’s support them and educate people about the importance of the topic.
You can also follow a community from mstodon but it shows all the replies from all posts and it’s very messy.
This platforms are really new and it’s hard to switch a social media account when you have a following. You have to decide by yourself if this is a fight you are willing to take. I think the best way to do it is to slowly switch and post both places for some time which might be a long time still.
This also happens for the consumers, if there’s no content to consume it’s hard to switch. That’s why we need content creators to also slowly switch. I try to open first the alternatives and if I find there’s not much content I check back on reddit but I try to not use it if I don’t need to. This takes more effort than just ignoring the whole fediverse thing but I think it’s something worth fighting for. With the current situation I think it has become very obvious that social media (or to put it in another way: how humans communicate with one another) shouldn’t be controlled by a private company.
I use firefox and neither have this issue. Check for some of your extensions that might be causing that!
I think one of the biggest barriers of the fediverse is decision paralysis.
So stop looking around! Go to https://lemmy.world/ and join :)
If you want to expend extra time, there are more servers and you can join a different one, if you are undecisive join the one above :)
It’s the same as with Lemmy, you join a server and you see practically all of them.
I remember in reddit following nextduckinglevel to simply be a bit more up to date with people commenting on this types of things and after that I started to enjoy less reddit, this type of communities make reddit similar to other social media liked Instagram and I don’t enjoy seeing extreme things all the time or people just trying to get the attention. I stop following the community after a while and the experience got better for me.
I don’t see much different between reddit and lemmy besides lemmy being in the fediverse thus it’s a plus on my book. But you decide what communities you follow, if you are not enjoying it stop following what makes you not enjoy the platform, this is not tiktok where they put videos on you face, you choose what type of content you want to see and follow things you want to follow not things you should follow.
They are waiting a bit more to see if some fix arrives or not:
we’re currently planning for late January/early February to update Lemmy.World to a newer Lemmy release.
A bit more detail:
We’ll keep an eye on any updates on that topic to see if it might be worth waiting a little longer for another fix or possibly deploying an additional patch even if it may not be part of an official Lemmy release yet at the time.
The blog states it’s still missing a lot of stuff and it’s a work in progress. If they have to implement every type of fediverse post like peertube, Pixelfed. Loops, etc it’s gonna take some effort.
I assume that’s the goal after reading the post but of course we will see.
Mixing science and click bait is the worst… You could say gravitational lensing was detected thanks to “AI” or machine learning algorithms that removed the noise and so on but it wasn’t that fancy that time, the important part was the science and now it seems the important part is to put AI in whatever place you can.