Muyal_Hix

Functionally there’s no difference.

The person I replied argued that you are obligated to donate if you want to keep Lemmy free. Right now the Lemmy developers are asking for donations, and people are saying no.

The developers are openly communist, and if you want to use Lemmy you’ll have to learn to live .ml, it’s not going to change.

Ironic considering the pinned post on .world is the admins asking for donations and pretty much everyone is saying “no”

Oh boy, where do I even begin:

1. Federation. People have no idea what it is, which means that they have to familiarize themselves with all these technical concepts just to create an account.

2. Servers. Most mastodon servers are locked, and you have to petition the admins to let you in, which often implies waiting more than a day. In other sites, you can create an account in 5 seconds, so mastodon is at a disadvantage.

3. Lack of an algorithm. This implies people won’t see the content they like, which means they have to go and actively look for content. Most people don’t want to spend time doing that, they just want to log in, laugh at funny memes ans look at pretty pictures.

Make mastodon more accessible then.

Yes. People don’t realize algorithms are one of the main reasons decentralized sited haven’t taken off. Most people don’t want to spend time looking for their content, they just want to log in, laugh at funny memes and look at pretty art

There are a lot of artists on pixelfed, but lack of an algorithm makes finding them very difficult

If you want something manufactured in a country that isn’t commiting human rights violations then you are not going to find it (not even the US, which is also funding a genocide right now)

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Vietnam war all over

“Foreign agents are brainwashing our youth to be against the war”

Israel support is one of those things where you can confidently say that both sides are the same

Why would he? He’s gonna get finnancial support no matter what party wins

I don’t like this, because one of the most used arguments in favor of capitalism is supposedly the free market and how you are allowed to make money doing what you like. If now it turns out that only a few things are classified as jobs then… where are the benefits of capitalism?

As an amateur artist, mastodon is really not friendly to newcomers like me.

I had to figure out what an instance was and pick one (I chose mastodon.art since I was interested in that)

After wondering why I couldn’t find other people’s accounts, it turned out that I shouldn’t have picked that instance because it had defederated from almost anyone else.

So now I had to create another account in another instance, which turned out to be so full my posts were not getting any traction.

With Bluesky I just created an account and I immediately gained a few followers

It is just not worth the hastle.

I think the problem with posts like this is that they are biased to the US. In real life, Facebook is still widely used outside the US, Twitter still has the majority of users and Instagram and Snapchat are used bye everyone.

Now watch as all the corporations that paused their advertising slowly return to the platform.

From a right wing monopolistic billionaire to another right wing monopolistic millionaire

Tried it. The front page is nothing but conspiracy and crypto bullshit. So no, thanks.

Let’s get real, most of the people stayed on reddit. Only a very small fraction tried lemmy and an even smaller fraction have completely stopped using reddit.

What comments like this fail to understand is that people sometimes like to do nothing with their free time.

YouTube became as popular as it is because it fulfilled a necessity, for good or bad

Yeah, but that’s the thing, most of them have not abandoned Twitter, they have just created accounts elsewhere. For now, at least on the case of nsfw artists, leaving Twitter is unfeasible.