There are a few

I’ve been playing with LemmySchedule to schedule out posts ahead of time. This can be good if you want to sit down once and queue a number of posts to go out over the course of a few hours, or if you want to make recurring discussion threads (which work great for building up a community slowly). For example, I’m testing it out with another account here: @[email protected]

There is also @[email protected], which you can set up to post from RSS feeds. This sounds closest to what you want to do from the other thread. The instructions are here: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/34622. For example, I have it set up to post from a youtube channel in [email protected]

There may be others out there :)

[email protected] is decent if you’re looking for the more technological side, since the rules filter out

• Minor app updates
• Government legislation
• Company news
• Opinion pieces

Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

This is the key bit. It’s good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit’s automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives

I’ve seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context:

• someone quoting a news article
• someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
• actual abuse

For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn’t affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated ‘scores’ won’t account for that.

We’re going to see even more annoying algospeak like “unalive”, only it’s going to be in news quotes as well

I think it’s a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

Lemmy has that problem too, but it’s much smaller in scope. Mostly because there’s less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation

On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won’t face the same problems old social media did.

Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.

BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn’t enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that’s true. However with their structure, a central relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn’t truly decentralized. Right now BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance. They’ve mentioned that they could transfer control of the relay to some other organization, but past that I don’t think they’ve taken any steps towards that.

BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech. There is more technical discussion on if it’s even possible to have a decentralized BlueSky and if it’s all just talk while they gather users.

My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they’re promising, but I’m not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.

I may be wrong, but I think it’s because some company owns the rights to the show in Canada and doesn’t want people watching it on YouTube

Not commenting on Bluesky, but the others have taken steps to differentiate themselves

Mastodon was handed over to a non profit

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko

Signal has been under a nonprofit

https://signalfoundation.org/

Being open source also means that people can fork the apps if something changes, or apps + server code in the case of a lot of fediverse software

Indirectly, looking up “John Oliver Mastodon” brings up this post in the top few. “John Oliver Pixelfed” has this post as the first option

So we’re not completely left out :)

DDG and Brave were pushed as “censorship free” alternatives, back when I was looking into covid disinformation, because the very obviously fake websites would sometimes rank higher on them

There may be more to it though

Someone could make a script that does that every now and then.

Check for any communities made since the last run, and add those to the list

Generally it’s just better to ask, even if you were legally / ethically / morally in the clear.

• if someone doesn’t want it, it’s going to turn them against peertube / fediverse platforms
• they might not understand what it is, and use their platform to share those feelings

Meanwhile if someone DOES want it, letting them know will give them the option to do it themselves. It makes less work for you, and they will feel invested. If they want it and they don’t want to upload it themselves, at the very least they’ll let their viewers know that peertube is an option.

As for the legal/moral side, I still feel like there’s a reason why you shouldn’t do this but I’m not aware of what that might be.

Thank you! I’ve edited the post now

We can do that, which page do you feel needs it?

For example we moved some of the Lemmy introduction content to the detailed explanation page, and we can move more.

For some of the topic specific pages, I was thinking that anyone who was linked to the page might have already have gotten a brief TLDR from whoever linked to it

:)

Something fun on the point about dark / light modes, the screenshots on this page swap between dark and light versions when the site theme is toggled

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/alternative-uis

The home page is here, and the Get Started button links to it

https://fedecan.ca/en/

We cut down on a lot of text from the initial drafts, so we can bring some of it back if the start is too jarring

Yup it did, we mentioned it here but I maybe we should make it more prominent? That video was one of the better explanations that I have seen so far, and there were a few things that we thought would be good to highlight on top of what it mentioned

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/credits

This isn’t really a federation problem, and more that there isn’t a clear “winner” yet.

Even on centralized platforms, you end up with multiple communities for the same topic, until one of them grows enough to beat out the rest. Then eventually a scandal might cause it to fragment again. There are also separate communities that keep going independently because of ideological differences. See the various international news subreddits

The movies communities here were like that, but now there is a pretty clear “main community”

New Reddit gets a lot of complaints too (loading issues, freezing), but it’s aimed at Reddit as a whole since newer users don’t know that old Reddit is an option.

At the same time, if I only ever used new Reddit, I would also think that old Reddit looks wrong

It’s also less likely to happen now. Back when that happened, users didn’t have the ability to block instances and so it was up to the admins to do that for everyone.

It’s now possible to block instances at the user level

Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.

The default one is a bit minimal, but we have many Alternative UIs are as modern looking as new Reddit.

They also work much better while being modern looking. There’s a reason so many of us came over here when they got rid of third party apps, the new Reddit interface is… bad.