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Too bad she says she wait until more controversies occur before she considers adding the platform to her social media list.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Lemmy section starts at 9:31 if you just want to see that part.

Too bad she says she wait until more controversies occur before she considers adding the platform to her social media list.

Yeah, this is a shame. I don't know the channel, but it seems like this video is more of an experiment in trying EU tech rather than actively recommending people move off US services. The creator is content (a content creator?) to stay on Reddit for now, so she's not necessarily ideologically motivated to switch to an EU alternative, decentralized platform, etc.

The "too complicated" criticism is her main reason for not adding Lemmy to her list of accounts. She does talk about it in terms of "adding" rather than "replacing", which is interesting. When I came over to kbin (RIP) in the APIcalypse, it coincided with leaving Reddit. I had no intention of using both. I can understand how treating Lemmy as an extra social media platform might change how you feel about it vs. dropping something else.

We almost always talk about fediverse platforms in terms of which centralized platform they're an alternative to. Some proportion of people clearly don't treat them that way. I wonder how you appeal to those groups. If they're currently happy with an existing service, saying "It's like that" isn't necessarily going to get them to join the federated equivalent.

In short, are there any advantages of the fediverse for people who don't have a problem with centralization?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Lemmy's decentralisation makes communities that have a specific focus to thrive

Even if we hate it, hexbear and Lemmygrad are two examples that are essentially isolated, but thriving with unique culture and community, and compared to r/communism they have better sources, and more variety

Star Trek thrives too in their own instance, and beehaw used to not even be federated to every other Lemmy Instance if I remember right

Lemmy creates easy to maintain, easy to connect communities, that don't force you to sign onto specifically their platform, or force you to interact with what you don't want to see, for example, being in Lemmy just for star trek, very easy to filter everything else out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

short, are there any advantages of the fediverse for people who don't have a problem with centralization?

hey, that's me. It's just another social media platform for news, memes and information for me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I'm keen to see people's review of PieFed, IMO for the general population it will be a much better user experience.

De-Duplication alone is huge.

I just wish it worked with Voyager

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I just wish it worked with Voyager

Indeed. Lack of mobile app is a huge drawback

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The onboarding for piefed is huge as well. So easy to kickstart your own feed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the difference between piefed and the other instances?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PieFed has Topic-Based Organization, Cross-Post Deduplication, Improved Onboarding Experience etc.

You can export your Lemmy content and import it to PieFed.

Try it out for a day, you'd probably want to switch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Hm, jerboa will still be usable with this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, that app won't be usable with piefed. It's a different software so to speak and apps have to support it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Ah, got it. Thanks! I'll check it out still.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is that?

If it's a Lemmy community, then most likely yes.

[–] threelonmusketeers 1 points 2 days ago

Jerboa is a mobile app for Lemmy, and it does not currently work with PieFed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let's send in the lemmy squad!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No account to post there. ;)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Not sure about the smiley, any help promoting the platform would be useful