Packopus

Packopus, 7 months ago

@solivine Same, and it just works better. Whenever I need a word processor or spreadsheet at home I don't need that much, and I need to be able to access it on all my devices, not just my home computer. So having the free alternative work faster, better, everywhere, then I don't even see Office as relevant anymore.

@billiam0202 @q47tx @wintermute_oregon @WeirdGoesPro @H2207

Packopus, 9 months ago

@Squander Let us peel away your petty facades and reveal you for what your truly are!!! --- fairly attractive 20-somethings, apparently.

Packopus, 9 months ago

@ananesiken "I can't adapt to change so therefore I refuse to, and will publicly announce it as I do so."

K bye, this content isn't helping the lack of good content.

Packopus, 10 months ago

@abff08f4813c The main thing about all this is that there were no alternatives to Reddit until now. We needed a good push and reason to leave but never had a tangible alternative with nothing even showing up in Search results worth checking out. Now we do, All these big corps are screwing themselves, and we now have a BETTER alternative than all of them. So keep screwing up, Reddit, we have a place to go now. Keep screwing up, Twitter, Google, StackOverflow, Tumblr, Imgur, and all others that will soon follow suit.

Packopus, 10 months ago

@Manticore

they require them to understand the concept of what a 'server' is to even get started.

I've known 5 year olds start minecraft servers. And understand that each "world" is an "instance". But that's aside the point, as you're right that even Help-Desk IT people struggle to understand the difference between computer and server.

It's not hard, it's just new.

The "new" part is what gets people. All of this is new. Even the implementation of all of this "fediverse" is new. It will come with time! People probably didn't understand email vs snailmail, and probably had an even harder time with SMS/IM vs email when all of that came about just over 20-30 years ago. Most of these "complications" are from people that grew up knowing that the "internet" is basically 5 or 6 social media sites for very specific uses, and those 5 or 6 sites are older than most of the people using them, so that's all they know. Even for a dude in IT, the fediverse was a new concept to understand, and even difficult to understand how it could best be implemented for the masses.

@metic

Packopus, 10 months ago

@Guadin This helped, but didn't alleviate my fears of running my own instance, where I thought I would need a larger server just to handle the amount of storage or read/writes from ALL the traffic being replicated on my instance. Does this "copy" get stored locally on my instance even if it's just being presented like a stream? Do I, in essence, make my own archive of the fediverse as long as it's running? I was curious about this as well with the concerns of Meta being federated, do they now have a copy of all the data of every federated instance?

@CarlsIII

Packopus, 11 months ago

@feduser934 They should have VINs just like motorcycles or chips built in because those free bikes are going in to someones van every night.

@lntl @KeavesSharpi

Packopus, 11 months ago

@kerplunk Also to that point, this is apparently a baseless rumor started from someone who had some beef with the dev at some point. And it's only spiralled because people keep spreading this info to new people who then just rinse and repeated what they hear because they're all new.

I can't find the link but it's on the lemmy blog. So it's best not to spread the info based on what you hear in the comments anyway. Lemmy is fine as long as you like the software. The best way to not support them is by not donating or something. That's all they get from it. Let them be tankies if they are, and distance yourself from the core instances.

kbin is newer but in my opinion the better interface. And if I stick around it will only get better!

I'd say Beehaw is the fediverse for your kids. let them be soft and kind and ban curse words.

You're safe with lemmy or kbin, probably. Just live with some growing pains for a month or two.

@admiral_muffin @PlutoniumAcid

Packopus, 11 months ago

@QuestioningEspecialy Take my upvote, I have nothing else to contribute but I like what you said!

@Lengsel

Packopus, 11 months ago

@Olgratin_Magmatoe I joined kbin.social for the same reason, yet...

@1337tux

Packopus, 11 months ago

@Cipher I think of it more of an instructional issue specifically rather than learning issue. People explain "it's like email" but fail to deliver the fact that it should be more like "It's how the internet should work". Where people think Lemmy is THE SITE and can communicate with kbin THE SITE.

It should be mentioned that if anyone has built a website, that Lemmy is the software. You install Google Chrome on your computer, you install lemmy on your computer. You are now able to ACCESS all the other websites like you would in Chrome.

People think "oh it's like email, well I know Gmail is pretty good so I'll make an account there. Whatever decisions Google makes is by extension my decision." The average user doesn't know what email actually is. They don't know that you can make your own email service. They don't know you can even just buy a domain and have your own email address.

The only thing that bugs me about the fediverse as a whole is that these threadiverse concepts shouldn't have communities. If it was implemented as intended, you'd have to make a community by making a new instance. The community should be federated, and then duplicate communities would get individually federated or defederated.

I think the ambiguity of the fediverse is muddied by how each software is trying to implement it. And it's almost hard to incentivize making your own instance.

@trachemys

Packopus, 11 months ago

@BreadDog Myself and @moar_salt created r/kbin and it hasn't been banned yet. Check it out and spread the word! I deleted my moderator account to it but can assist where needed.

Packopus, 11 months ago

@bitsplease Hey all, I want you to think of this as rebooting the internet. YOU are the starter now. This whole fediverse concept is relatively new to a lot of people, but can make a whole lot of new websites be like what the internet was supposed to be. Please, be the forefront, be the internet you want to see. You can't lurk because without you, WE won't see anything. Content may be made by others, but you obsorb it and can pass it on. Just like gossip around the office, you have to be the one to help spread it otherwise there is no tea at the end of the day. This brought me out of my lurking shell. I've commented everywhere I even see! Join us! Share us! Be a part of this whole shift in the newest "generation" of internet!

Packopus, 11 months ago

@alyaza Congrats on the growth! I have been trying to find a space that was not a centralized site for years now... Pretty much since COVID started. Rather than needing a community, I needed a method that I could contact people from 1 source, no matter what service they used. Now I get both! I can have people message me as long as they are on the fediverse in some way or another and, like you, am thankful all these companies are dropping nukes on themselves so I can convince people to join these other sites and message me there.

I hope things keep heading this way and more and more people start to understand the depth of the fediverse and more and more success stories can emerge like yours!

Packopus, 11 months ago

Commenting from kbin. I actually feel kbin is a more reddit-like site and beginner friendly. and I love that we can interact from different sites.

I am more of a forum-type user and not a microblogger, so I liked that aspect of it all. I dislike Mastodon because of the "shout to the void" style that people post on there. I like a site that has sub-communities that all aggregate into a front-page, but this is a little different as I subscribe to individual sites rather than a moderated community within a monopolated site like Reddit.

So rather than a Reddit alternative, I actually like it as a re-thought forum. I've also enjoyed the culture of the fediverse of "we're not here to attack everything you say" so I've felt more open to comment rather than lurk.