Welcome. It’s better here. (except for maybe the weird blocking functionality.)

If you’re interested in any other Fediverse social media platforms, I made a video on them earlier this year.

You just made those words up.

/s

LOL

Referring to self-hosting, human moderators as “authorities” is hilarious.

I remember when, here in Missouri, the people wanted to regulate predatory payday lenders. Those opposed called their fucking organizations “Such and Such for Equal Credit Access”. Sounds nice right? Almost like the term “Diversity of Thought”.

What you refer to as “empowerment”, I refer to as a cancer. It needs to be cut out, like they did back in the day on Cable Street.

If you feel so disempowered, go have a conversation with Grok. He’ll make you feel super special.

After seeing how many terrorist ideologies have been allowed to thrive by claiming First Amendment protection since 2016.

No.

“Diversity of thought” my ass. I’m sure your wonderfully-diverse thoughts are just what all of us need to hear, but if they can’t pass muster under human moderation, they’re not worth platforming.

Even better.

Most instances have human moderation, gating for bots, and yes, and you actually have to take 5-10 minutes to figure out how it all works, so the stupid people are automatically excluded by sheer complexity.

I fucking love Mastodon.

Can confirm. Am dozen.

Yeah, I think most get my meaning, but fair point.

What would it need to become a viable youtube alternative?

Good question. I was only on it for about 30 minutes, so I don’t really have extensive feedback other than it felt very low quality and too basic.

Are there any well-populated instances you would recommend? I could be convinced to give it another try.

Have you thought about mirroring your youtube content to peertube?

I’ll consider doing that.

Why did you find it underwhelming?

There’s a chapter on that in the video. :D But I was just vastly unimpressed with the quality of content and the UI. It’s not a viable YouTube alternative at this point, IMHO.

to put it politely, politically intense.

You think?

One of the things I love about the Fediverse is how easy it is to avoid political content. So many good filtering settings under the hood, especially on Mastodon, but with Lemmy you can just subscribe to non-political content and make your subs your default home page.

We can be intense though.

It’s gotten a pretty good response, despite my channel being smaller. I think a lot of folks just don’t realize that there’s viable, enjoyable social media that is ad, AI, and algo-free.

Ah, thank you for the info.

I only mentioned ‘Lemmy’ in the video, but did include a link to a Lemmy instance database, so I presume those options are included.

I tried PeerTube and, unfortunately, found it terribly underwhelming. But thank you for the suggestion.

Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.

No doubt there are bad actors polluting communities on the Fediverse

Yeah, but there’s a huge difference: human moderation coupled with better curation tools. You can block a user or a whole instance, which quiets the Nazis pretty fast.

And the people doing the moderation are volunteers who actually give a shit.

Yup.

Though I thought of it as the Internet from 2010. No ads. No algo. All chronological. Once you figure out where the slow mode setting is and turn it off, Mastodon is the fucking best. I even pay a voluntary sub every month to help my instance host itself.

And it requires just enough setup (5-10 minutes tops) that the vast majority of the Internet is too lazy to use it, which keeps the quality high.

I get why this would bug people.

It’s a small act of legitimizing the domestic Gestapo, but we’ve already seen that the corporate social media is a-okay with platforming terrorists, Nazis, and the worst.

That’s why we’re on Lemmy instead.

I make it a point to post a few articles every day.

Not a firehose, but I’m doing my part.

You could build your own spreadsheet using LibreOffice Spreadsheets.

I’ve been meaning to do it because my diet doesn’t change much, and it would just be easier to track it myself.