Fedimigration Organizing

More problematically, nobody was getting paid to Reddit, But Instagram, YouTube and TikTok are some peoples income, and they really don't have any strong inclination to leave paying platforms. A lot of the truly wild viral content is coming from people trying to make a living out of it.

We are going to have true social interactions on the fediverse. But without algorithmic discovery and paid performers, a lot of people aren't going to come over. And honestly, I'm just fine with that.

I do wish we could get a solid foot in the Facebook door. There's an awful lot of semi-private data there that people aren't getting paid to post that could be free of big media pincers and wallets.

I was talking to a friend who posts on IG, and has gotten a Pixelfed acct in the past week. They were saying, as we hiked in the wilderness under cloudy skies, less than ideal conditions, that I was the only person they knew on Pixelfed. A few hours later they txt’d me the handle of another friend of theirs, who is on Pixelfed. 100% increase in a few hours. Don’t be afraid of Pixelfed. Jump in with both feet! Be afraid of your Meta incarceration. Join us! We’ll have a great time! @[email protected]

For creators, the best choice is probably to post parallel, distributing your content on as many platforms as feasible. That way, you reach even people who only have one of those, and also lower the migration barrier for consumers.

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.

Welcome, welcome! Great job, escaping corporate pushes. Great job.

Welcome!

Welcome and see you around.

Welcome!

I'm actually doing some research on monetization options now. Hopefully going to put together an overview of the options available soon.

Experience from 12 days ago from someone using join-lemmy: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35480016

In summary: it was quite messy, they ended up on a unmaintained, slow instance and had to change

That was the very first thing I saw and it instantly made me trust the rest of the information significantly less.

Tbh i am not a fan of any of those points:

• Free from Manipulation: Malicious actors can still make dummy accounts to influcence scores and there is also nothing inherent in the system that truly prevents manipulative content

• No Censorship. No tracking: Censorship can still happen on a instance basis through bans or defederation, althought those are also necessary tools for other reasons. And no tracking imo also is missleading, simply because everything posted here is public (including up/downvotes), there simply isn't true privacy in a public forum. It's better in that it doesn't follow you around to other websites and such, but still putting it so difinitive is wrong.

• True freedom of speech: Kind of overlaps with the "no censorship" part i think.

What the fediverse is to me is:

• Diversity and freedom of choice

• Resilience against central control

Yeah a lot of Luigi sentiment was toasted directly by admins, so, you know

link to https://join-lemmy.org/ instead of https://lemmy.world/

Their failure to do so is inherently their statement to the decentralised nature of the fediverse, that being „Fuck you people, we are the next reddit, and y'all are just trash”.

https://loops.video/

Yeah, it's all publically available content. Anyone can scrape it if they're determined enough.

It's why I'm wondering why there isn't a stronger desire within the fediverse to have some of it end-to-end encrypted. PixelFed is useless to me, because I'd only want to share photos with people I've added.

So far, I have not yet found a suitable non-abandoned project.

Futo Circles, please revive 🥲