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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39653865

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo


If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[โ€“] 0x0@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

John Oliver's the GOAT, along with Jon Stewart.

[โ€“] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

Jon Stewart and the daily show forged many legends

[โ€“] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

John Goodman, John Candy, John F. Kennedy, John C. Reilly, John Denver. Trust in the Jo(h)ns..

[โ€“] D_C@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I would trust him to watch my dogs.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know, man, his seems pretty dead.

[โ€“] harmsy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd be careful around anyone whose middle name is John, though. There's this one guy with stupid hair that ruins everything he touches. Heard he's in charge of a whole country now.

Don't forget John Green!

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thatโ€™s a lot of John son.

Johnson had a big johnson

[โ€“] peaches@lemm.ee 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

His videos are uploaded on PeerTube as well. I donโ€™t know if his team is doing it or a fan. lastweektonight_channel@tube.fede.re

[โ€“] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

given that the name contains "(unofficial mirror)", I'm willing to take a guess

[โ€“] Lemgen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It says its an unofficial mirror

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there a Roku client for PeerTube?

[โ€“] peaches@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Looks like there is one PeerVue as per the following link:

PeerTube Third party applications

[โ€“] Parptarf@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This might actually be kind of huge. Doesnโ€™t he have a pretty big outreach?

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Parptarf@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, so it didnโ€™t do that much then. Oh well, still good exposure!

Its like with normal advertisement. If you heard the name of it before, especially from a trustworthy source, then it instantly becomes more trustworthy to you. When people seriously start looking for alternatives, they will think back or try to find that episode again.

[โ€“] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think discussion forum type apps are just niche by default. Reddit never courted the masses, it was a site for geeks (and now it's being turned into a site for the fedoraรจd clientele exclusively). And despite what Facebook hoped, Threads isn't exactly a household name.

[โ€“] Revan343@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Threads

Oh right, that exists

[โ€“] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Pixelfed is growing fast.

A few months ago, it was like me and six other losers. It's great to see!

[โ€“] letzlo@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What does it do? Is it a direct alternative for something?

[โ€“] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

It's an alternative to Instagram

[โ€“] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Here's my profile to get the gist

The landing page is terrible.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

That was nice of him

[โ€“] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now if only he promoted XMPP as well

[โ€“] warmaster@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Fuck BlueSky, they are full of shit.

Signal is centralized in the US.

[โ€“] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Signal? Does it have channels like Telegram?

[โ€“] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, but a cabinet level government official has to add you

[โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 weeks ago

So itโ€™s pretty easy to get in.

[โ€“] Evotech@lemmy.world -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Signal is more like snapchat with people you know. With its stories.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

WhatsApp. It's a direct WhatsApp clone.

[โ€“] Takumidesh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not really.

I'm a big signal proponent, but it's very barebones. There is a half ass story implementation, but otherwise, it's a pretty lean messaging application with voice and video and that's pretty much it.

Signal doesn't really have a mechanism for following accounts the way you can on telegram and WhatsApp, and while it supports group chats, it's more akin to an old school group text rather than a channel like on telegram or Whatsapp.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess I didn't know WhatsApp caught up that much to Telegram, the WhatsApp I knew used to support group chats and voice calls but nothing like channels, supergroups and following users, yet.

[โ€“] letzlo@feddit.nl 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Itโ€™s still like that. Those additional things are instagram.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I got a very different impression from @Takumidesh@lemmy.world their comment...

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

I am forced to use WhatsApp for work and a few groups. Until last half of 2023 they literally had nothing.

They had no polls, no channels, communities, not even reactions... more barebones than signal to be honest. I was surprised when I switched mostly to signal. Now they have passed signal in terms of "features" again, but indeed no stories like signal.

I don't know a single person who follows something on whatsapp. That is just not what it does well at all.

Can someone tell me why we care about stories on a messaging app? Don't we have Instagram and its clones for that?

[โ€“] ultracritical@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like WhatsApp is a Signal clone. Whatsapp uses the signal protocol for its encryption. Or at least it did until the Zuck took it closed source. It's still at least, in part, signal though.

Course Signal is still very barebones. Great for a secure messenger, but not as super featured like telegram. Would've been nice if they kept SMS compatibility though.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When was WhatsApp open source? I can't find anything on that.

Also WhatsApp is 6 years older than Signal, they couldn't have cloned Signal by definition.

[โ€“] ultracritical@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Signal protocol is what you're looking for. Started as text secure then changed name eventually. Whatsapp was never opensourced they just used the Text secure (now signal) protocol for their encrypted messages. They still allegedly use the signal protocol, I think, but with it being fully closed source and not implementing current signal feature for years afterwards.

In other words I have a high degree of faith our nuclear secrets will only be leaked to me when our DUI hires add me to the group, again using signal. But guarantee they're also leaked to the Zuck using whatsapp.

[โ€“] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

I know what you mean, WhatsApp is still several years older than that. They added it later. WhatsApp wasn't developed as a Signal clone, it can't have been, but Signal seems to try to be a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp (phone number-based (yikes), focused on messaging the SMS way but with files and over the Internet, simple profile with a status message on them, E2EE...)

[โ€“] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 1 week ago

isn't this that skibidi biden guy