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Something to help lead people to the Fediverse (media.piefed.social)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/fedigrow@lemmy.zip
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I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day https://old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/comments/1ijmkc0/make_the_switch_away_from_meta/

Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc. If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.

I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.

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[–] 83 points 9 months ago (1 child)

I don't feel like loops is ready for this exposure. Not yet.

If folks can't install it through the regular stores or even f droid then it may risk always being the complicated and nerdy alternative.

Kind of like Linux has problems getting out of the very techy reputation that it used to have

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Agreed. I know you can technically browse tiktok on PC in a browser, but realistically that is not really how people interact with it.

    As long as Loops doesn't have a phone app, it is not a TikTok replacement.

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    • [–] 52 points 9 months ago (19 children)

    80% the people on TT, YT and IG are there to follow content creators that are only on those platforms to make money.

    Until creators can easily make money on Fediverse platforms, they'll always play second fiddle to closed platforms that market and share profits, no matter how crappy the returns are.

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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe it’s just me, but the influencer type content creators are part of what I’m fleeing from in the mainstream social media options. The internet is better without them. The gamification and monitization leads to enshittification. Reddit really started going to shit when the same people’s posts were always on the front page, and then you had the same people modding and gaming their communities to push it. I personally would hate if that happened to fediverse alternatives.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    I don't really care that much about influencers, the fake outrage and fake indignation. I want to watch people play games I can't afford and don't have time to dedicate to playing. And I don't want to watch it live, I want to start it when I feel like it and stop it when I'm busy. I want some astrophysics news, some people cooking some shit. All those people are solely there because they can afford to stop their day jobs and make something interesting. I want to see some great scott and some tom scott.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    The ideal is people doing it just because they can, but how many people have the financial means for that? I'd say another reason for Reddit going to shit is all the people wanting to express themselves somehow, but only having a little bit of time to type something out on their phones and not enough to put thought or research into what they are saying. Streamers, youtubers etc. put a lot of work and practice into making something someone might consider good, and a lot of that is only possible because they get paid and so don't have to get another full time job that removes any time for creative pursuits.

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This. There are alternative video hosting platforms; none of them are really alternatives to YouTube itself until the content creators also move.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    This is a big thing I've been thinking about with Youtube. People clearly have problems with it. But they're so locked in that they feel they can't move to another platform.

    I don't even think they creators need to make a full jump for Peertube to grow. But having content Cross-posted, and for creators to go "and if you want an alternative to YouTube, I'm also on PeerTube" would go a long way.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Floatplane in particular seems promising, but between them and viva plus, they really outline how expensive it is to try to do it Youtube style. But then you have things like odysee where they just barely monetize, and you see what hot trash that brings in.

    It's a hard nut to crack.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Then we can get new creators and a new kind of community.

    Something different, can still grow and be beautiful.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    checks the age of peertube and the almost complete lack of interesting content

    is it gonna start soon? It's almost a decade old and there's nothing interesting at all outside of a couple Linux people.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    I totally get your point. I want to like it too, but so far the only channels that I've found worth following are Veronica Explains and The Linux Experiment, and even then, Veronica doesn't post very often. I was also following a comics channel but they faded away.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    Recording, Editing and Posting video is exhausting. Assume that you get your donations in order from whatever service, you can then post it on yourube and get a extra pittance, or post it on peertube and get nothing, you'll have to have some other reason to give up the pittance.

    Hell, there's more non-rightwing content on odysee than there is on peertube.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    @rumba This is where we need to showcase things like Patreon and other ways of people making money from people who truly enjoy there work, pay people not corporations.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    now go convince all those creators making a living that have both youtube and patreon money coming in to post on a free only alternative and just go to patreon income.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I know it's not as simple as that, but creators are annoyed of these platforms, mirroring your content on the Fediverse is easy through PeerTube and having 'uncensored' or less restricted videos be uploaded onto PeerTube can help.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Honestly, the fact they complain about the platforms all the time while doing nothing to leave those platforms what-so-ever just feels like another manipulation tactic like clickbait titles and thumbnails.

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    • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My god, thank you for putting the names under the logos. I've seen too many people just put the logos without any text because it's "clean", but then the viewers have no idea what to search for lol

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    • [–] [S] 27 points 9 months ago

    Lots of people are upset with the censorship happening on TikTok and are uninstalling TikTok, this image might be useful to show to them.

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    [–] 26 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    I wish Peertube had more content, although I may just be actual garbage at finding it.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago

    I recently contacted a content creator at youtue asking if they might also share their content on peertube as they have the rights to do so. Maybe this is a way of getting more content.

    Since the videos are already made for yt it shouldn't be a lot of more work to do for creators.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    This is the issue with fediverse in general: lack of content. I'm sure people can figure out how to join ... it's not any more complicated than joining Bluesky, and that has exploded in growth. Why? Because everybody is on there.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    Take a look over at !peertube@lemmy.world It would be great if more people knew about it and posted/interacted.

    Also https://piefed.social/f/fediversevideos or join (if you are piefed) here ~fediversevideos@piefed.social

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    it can be tough to find good stuff on there. I had a personal peertube instance that I had setup but I ended up shutting it down, i rarely used it and couldn't find a lot of good stuff on there.

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