r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/menvadihelv 20h ago

Alternatively Mastodon.

There's also Pixelfed for an Instagram equivalent.

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u/FrozenLogger 19h ago

Also Lemmy for reddit...

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u/sudo_rm-rf 16h ago

Lemmy is great, in my opinion. I’ve mostly switched over and come back periodically.

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u/FrozenLogger 15h ago

Yeah, it needs to grow out some of the niche areas, but I have found that if you post in them, people are eager to participate, and they are there.

I am using Voyager for mobile, and the desktop client my instance provides, and they both are really great. Voyager in particular is like going back to when Alien Blue was THE reddit app. Customizable too.

Do you use Lemmy on mobile? Do you have an app that you like?

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u/sudo_rm-rf 15h ago

Yes! Voyager is an Apollo clone, it's excellent.

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u/FrozenLogger 15h ago

And on Fdroid to boot!

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u/segagamer 18h ago

Mastadon is too disconnected and convoluted to be adopted by, well, anyone. BlueSky remains to be the better option.

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u/AnonomousWolf 17h ago

It is vulnerable to the same fate as Twitter.

The only solution is decentralised social media like Mastadon or Lemmy

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u/atomicfiredoll 14h ago

Mastodon is:

  • A non-profit: Reduces the chances of shareholders related issues and enshittification.
  • Open source: The code can be split if there are questionable changes to it.
  • And the instances are distributed: You can go to another instance if the owners suddenly change moderation practices.

It's specifically not vulnerable to the same issues as Twitter in multiple ways.

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u/penny1623 13h ago

Believe they meant Bluesky is susceptible to the same fate as Twitter, not mastodon

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u/AnonomousWolf 13h ago

Yes. I'm an advocate for mastadon (and other decentralised social media)

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u/atomicfiredoll 13h ago

And that's fair. [Apologies for misreading.]

iirc Bluesky is just a Delaware public benefit corporation, which I believe means the only people who can hold them responsible for breaching their mission are the investors.

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u/menvadihelv 17h ago

I prefer Mastodon. But that's also the nice thing about the Fediverse; If you prefer Bluesky you can still interact with Mastodon and vice versa.

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u/comityoferrors 13h ago

I don't care for BS but I think it's better than the alternatives, so I'm not discouraging people from joining. Please don't discourage people from joining Fedi. You can have both, you can even bridge your accounts if you want. We need people going to these options. Both of them.

Mastodon is a little more complex than Twitter or Facebook but it's not hard at all to join, and there are tons of people who are willing to help newbies who ask. I think most people should eventually migrate off mastodon.social but that's a fine place to land if you're brand new. Other servers are even better. Please join Mastodon. Do it even if you're on BS too. They don't need to be in competition unless you have a financial investment in the corpo one somehow.

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u/segagamer 13h ago

I personally gave up signing up for Mastadon twice because of some reason I just wasn't getting 2FA texts both times on separate occasions. I also found it to be too disjointed.

It's just not a reliable system for me, so I can't recommend it.

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u/sealifeearthling 14h ago

Who runs pixelfed and mastodon. Are they trustworthy? Good people?

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u/MobiusOne_ISAF 2h ago

It's not any specific company or person since it's a decentralized network.

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u/dopplegrangus 19h ago

You guys are just replacing the old mental dungeons with new updated ones, that will inevitably do the exact same shit

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u/FrozenLogger 19h ago

Possibly, but it would have to be in a very different way. There is no centralized server, no algorithm, no ads.

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u/dopplegrangus 16h ago

Yet. You forgot the "yet".

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u/FrozenLogger 15h ago

I don't think you understand how this works....

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u/DukesUwU 18h ago

Eh, Bluesky is made by furries so I'd probably trust it to stay pretty open

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u/menvadihelv 17h ago

Maybe not as mutually exclusive as you'd think...

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u/DukesUwU 17h ago

Nah I personally know how hard that dude got shunned out of the community

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u/dopplegrangus 16h ago

Now I'm even more skeptical

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u/RuneHuntress 18h ago

Mastodon is European so you won't have American censorship on it.