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 :)

  • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

      • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yeah I just also use houdini, embergen, etc. and there is no community for those. Others could be using cinema4d, 3ds max, etc. but the result is all 3d, so I thought there should be one encapsulating them all, showing when the popular programs get major updates or if a new one pops up.

  • Fake4000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      It’s a wonderful picture, thank you :) Sometimes I wish that I had saved old photos of mine before they’re lost to time.

  • Shatur@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

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

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

    God damn! I’m trying my hardest here!

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What is peoples opinions on reposting. Sometimes i see a cool video from a creator i like and i want to repost it to loops but i feel like im stealing and reuploading their work. I think reposting to lemmy is fine since its a link aggregation site first.

    • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I’m afraid YouTube is a different beast entirely when it comes to replacing it, so I’m going to have to branch out on what ‘alternative’ means.

      loops.video is a tiktok-esque shortform video service on the fediverse owncast.online is a federated livestreaming platform, like twitch funkwhale.audio is the fediverse’s answer to music streaming. I’ve also heard good things about radiofreefedi.net and of course you’ve already heard of peertube.tv

      but when it comes to YouTube, absolutely nothing holds a real candle to the variety anf quality of it’s content, so you might want to look into alternatives such as Dropout.tv, Nebula, Odyssee (I have heard very bad things about Odyssee, but including for variety), or frontends like Invidious, Freetube, and Newpipe.

      Hope this helps :)

      PS: I have a post asking for peertube video reccomendations, which might have a comment or two with something of interest.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (blocked by lemmy.world instance)

    Sail free in the high seas!

    Also, I want to mention Briar it’s a peer-to-peer communications app that allows communications not only by internet (via tor), but also bluetooth, wifi. There are no servers, all the data on right on your device. Its available for Android, and there’s also desktop clients. You can form a mesh network of your fellow revolutionaries, the oppressors can shut down the internet, but not the flow of information. If everyone in a protest added each other as contacts on Briar on their phone, you can theretically have a Briar forum that can share information on any law enforcemement or military movements, even during an internet shutdown. (beware of possible phone backdoors tho, maybe run Graphene OS or something)

    There are already Briar Public Forums, but they don’t have much activity (there’s like 1 post/comment every other month, and that’s it). But its like a secret corner of the internet. If we get more people to use it, we can potentially have a peer-to-peer network instead of only being decentralized, but still having servers.

    • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      briar comes with calyxos, and I’ve been considering it. The shame is I don’t message all that much, and mostly use messagers for resources or distribution (can’t believe so much support is moving to discord)

      • NudeNewt@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        If you’re privacy & security centered do NOT go with Calyx. They still use several g**gle services underneath it all. Graphene is the way to go, and no they are not affiliated with Copperhead (The one who proudly states they work with Raytheon) TLDR copperhead tried to take over Graphene but failed.

        Also regarding rumors of it being a FBI honeypot, the feds advertised the backdoored phone /OS as being Graphene itself - or at the very least based on it in some way. It is not.

        Just remember to use a oem unlocked android device. Carrier locked phones are often times luck-based in terms of getting it OEM unlocked. Often times they are literally impossible to get unlocked. Support CAN do it and HAVE THE TOOLS to unlock it for you but more often then not… they won’t.

        Don’t get me wrong, Calyx without micro g (F-Droid + Obtainium) is a fantastic option plus it’s compatible with a wide range of devices -just not as secure is all.

        It’s ironic, using a g**gle phone for privacy. Different strokes for different folks.

        • rosahaj@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          to be fair, I set up calyx a while ago, back when i was only at the beginning of my privacy journey, and still thought i might need google services. Though I’ll absolutely be giving graphene a try when I can!

      • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Reddit prob got big because they used bots to fudge their upvote numbers to make their site look more active than it is, I’m saying this with no evidence lol

  • Fungah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I was recently banned from reddit.

    On all my accounts.

    Across four email addresses.

    Simultaneously.

    Many of which haven’t been used in months. Years in some cases.

    So - banned on one account linked to one address. Accounts linked to four other email addresses were banned. None of those accounts have been logged into from any device the account I got banned from was being used on.

    The emails are linked to my phone number though.

    So. Two steps ahead of you. But. They are either using some kind of NLP to identify the way I write. Or google is sharing that the accounts are linked to my phone number.

    Anyway. Reddit can fuck right off. And I’ll be buying a burner phone with cash to make some accounts soon.