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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago

I’ve started explaining this to non-techies. Hopefully starting to gain a little traction as the meta/ticktock machine becomes more and more egregious. Also this is speeding up the homelab I’m building.

I’d add the appropriate meme but I’m new here.

I’m doing my part .gif
[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Y’know what, here I am! This is such a genuine request.

Thank you, friend! This post may very well be the tipping point for many Lemmings/Fediversers, myself included.

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[–] wahfflez 20 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago

Lurk No More

The Iconic Spiderman: No More comic panel, depicting Peter Parker leaving behind his Spiderman costume in a trash can whilst walking away with his back to the viewer in the rain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

One of us! One of us! ONE OF US!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I am SO thankful that there are so many people out there working on projects such as this! I gained lots of momentum in the past weeks protecting my privacy and taking digital matters back in my own hands, i wouldn't have come so far if it wheren't for all the other people who have been doing this for years! Thanks everyone :)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

You said it! I remember years back looking for reddit alternatives and the only things around were stuff like raddle.me. Seeing lemmy and the fediverse develop like this? It's a dream come true!

[–] gi1242 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

is there a search function in Lemmy to search for posts? is it indexed and does it show up in search engine results?

if yes, that might help a lot with getting traffic

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've always been a lurker, but I started being active on Fedi, and I like it!

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[–] Fake4000 17 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Couldn't agree more.

I think one that can be done is to create a pinned FAQ post in Reddit on the fediverse sub Reddit. I have seen so many questions popping up lately with a lot of potential users that seem confused.

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[–] designated_fridge 13 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I go through a cycle for this. I leave Reddit because I hate it. And then I go here and well it's quite obvious it's a certain type of people who are willing to jump through hoops and use the fediverse. I find most of the opinions here to be a little bit too extreme for my taste. I just want to discuss football (soccer) and tech...

But I agree with you. It only feels empty because we all decide to not hit "post".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

I'm exactly the same, here's hoping we'll pave the way for many more like us, hey?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I did start a community for 3d (3dee), dropshipping (dropshipping lol), and chairs (deskchairs) since those were some communities I used on reddit that I didn't see here. Made a general one for 3d since its still small here and spreading the programs out means less visibility and posts on each community imo. Haven't posted yet and neither has anyone else tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

For 3d, there is [email protected]

You might want to have a look at [email protected], it's a community for people who build communities

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

What iphone apps do yall use? Rnow I'm using loops for the tiktokclond (hoping more creators join and post there) and mlem for lemmy (liking it more than voyager, arctic seems cleaner but I got used to this interface). Does anyone have a good mastadon app they reccomend? I'm using bluesky since getting an okay feed was easier there, not sure if thats the apps fault. I do like an algorithim just not one based on controversy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I’m in, lets this be my late new year resolution

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[–] werefreeatlast 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

But can we still be scenical? Since social media doesn't fulfill a need perse, I was thinking maybe my scenical comments with misspelled words at wrongly advised times would help. It helps me relieve work related stress. Is that how you spell scenical? Scenical, when you cause a scene. No I mean Cynical! Yeah that one!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

I am trying to. I just found about lemmy today.

Can someone recommend me some other stuff?

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