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A Reddit post promoting the Fediverse that actually gained traction (and Reddit deleted the top comment for promoting Lemmy) (www.reddit.com)
submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) by Die4Ever@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I haven't seen Reddit give so much attention to the Fediverse in a long time. Maybe we can help them and answer some questions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/

https://www.404media.co/decentralized-social-media-is-the-only-alternative-to-the-tech-oligarchy/

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I would help, but I honestly don't have the password anymore. I don't think I signed up with an email, but if I did it was a dummy one. I wish I could help.

Edit: Also, I didn't know about this bridge for Mastodon:

if you want your Mastodon posts to also show on Bluesky then use this bridge https://fed.brid.gy/ you only need to follow the account @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy (~~note: is this a typo?~~ It is not a typo. It will follow you back and make sure to accept the follow) and it will automatically bridge you

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I've only tried it with Mastodon)

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Do you know how I connect Pixelfed to Mastodon too? Or is it automatic and I just do search maybe?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

yea it should just be a matter of searching your username, but you need to be logged in to search remote instances (they don't want anonymous requests spamming the network)

what's your Pixelfed username? I can pull it up if you want

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks for the info, I'll give it a go. It's great that we can link to bluesky but not necessarily be a part of them.

On another note, don't you think it's a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances? I'm not sure I understand bringing them up in the first place.

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

On another note, don’t you think it’s a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances?

Where is that comment? I didn't see it. Maybe they're thinking back when it was really hard to get new communities federated, but it's not so bad these days, and even the medium sizes instances already have tons of communities already federated.

anyways I think we should've give people too much trouble as long as they're joining the Fediverse lol, they can move instances as they get a feel for it

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

I've personally had an issue with a world admin in the past, that's why I picked up on it. I don't seem to be having as much issues lately, so maybe they've chilled. It's the advertising part that kind of bugs me for their instance instead of Lemmy in general:

Really if you're telling someone about it, you just tell them one of the bigger, better instances. Don't send them to that "pick a server" thing. I don't know if I'm allowed to link it here, but the name of the software and the word "world" with a period in between is a fine server for both Lemmy and Mastodon.

I went from a heavy, daily reddit user to making half a dozen comments here in a year. All my activity is now over there, outside of search results.

It's by u/Serinus

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 11 hours ago

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

Feel free if you have any questions"

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The idea of picking a bigger server is better for new people, but idk how I feel about them advertising only their server.

The average person hits a server choice and gives up so it probably does help add more people.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago

but idk how I feel about them advertising only their server.

That's exactly the part. If they had said pick a bigger server, than I would have been 100%.

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