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[–] 12 points 8 months ago (26 children)

Asking genuinely: do people still use Mastodon? It boomed briefly when Musky took twitter but for whatever reason, people decided to go to the data harvesting, ad filled blue sky. I never got either of them but have been recently thinking of mastodon but assumed people don’t still use it.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    Too bad it's not interoperable with lemmy. It would be cool if their accounts could see a link or crosspost to a post here, pop over and read it from their interface, comment, whatever.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but in case it's not, you very much can read and post to Lemmy via a mastodon account.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    I haven't seen any crossover and I've been on here half of the winter.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I briefly tried mastadon. I don't like the format, it's a twitter basically, the federation is a plus, but the entire thing is a popularity contest. Almost all engagement is driven by those with large follower counts, 99 percent of posts are seen by almost no one.

    Which is ok if you want to build a following, but for your everyday user, reddit or lemmy is more egalitarian, your posts, and your comments, can be considered on their own merit regardless of your follower count.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yes, I have two active accounts. The autistic and neurodivergent communities there are great.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Oh wow. That’s great to hear! I have, since commenting, set up an account myself. App seems a little bit buggy but, I don’t plan on being on it a lot. I appreciate the interesting feedback from you and the others who took the time to reply.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    The only issue I have with mastodon is the federation gets a bit janky (so does Lemmy tbh) but it's more noticeable on mastodon. My main account is on autistics.life, which is federated with most instances except threads and the maga types, but very often I can't see images on mastodon.social posts via my main account. In fact I can't even see a lot of my older mastodon.social posts via my main account without viewing the post via my alt account and then account switching.

    I've seen people say to avoid using mastodon.social as your main account.

    I use the Tusky app, but it has a tendency to crash, especially when typing hash tags.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I never really even thought to research that much. I scanned the different instances. I joined into privacysafe.social - it seemed fine. Being that I have only been on it for a few hours and have only followed 9 accounts, I can’t say I’ve noticed many issues regarding my feed at this point. Although I wish I could organize my feed by newest first. It doesn’t seem to be that way by default. I have just had a couple minor bugs with profile pages loading strangely.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I try it every now and again but I simply don't "get" the format. This isn't an issue wtih Mastodon, it's just that style of social media, I had the same issue with Twitter. The vast majority of content seems to be people just dumping their thoughts into a post. I think it's because I have no interest in following people, but topics, which I find that Lemmy/Reddit easier to follow.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I do, but almost no-one else I'd want to follow does, which makes it feel pointless at the moment. Quite a few 'celebrities' (for want of a better word) seem to have dormant accounts. One of the few people I know who is posting regularly is Bernie Sanders.

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  • [+] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yep, the vast majority of people will pick the path of least resitance, and signing up to centralised services are usually very familiar and easy. Throw in the concept of instances / servers, and suddenly people are confused - they don't know what that means for their experience and it gives them a choice paralysis.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Wasn't aware that this is a 4K video and my lemmy UI doesn't have option to play at lower scale (not sure if lemmy itself has this feature). Accidentally crashed my phone lol

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    failed to load media 🥲

    The full length video (4:20 one) appears to be broken on their website. Anyone got a copy?

    The rest load fine (30 and 15s ones).

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I mean the whole blog post is just advertising disguised as advocacies really though, would be good if there was something like this made by people without an ulterior motive

    Especially as the UK porn ban has been a HUGE boon to those VPN providers, suddenly gaining literally millions of customers

    Edit: Honestly, I think all those VPNs are secretly lobbying in favor of these kind of stupid laws cause those laws are good for their bottom line

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Dude..... where's my car?

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago

    Pretty effective ad, it’s AI filled though, right?

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    [–] 54 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I am conflicted. A company has made me want to watch an ad and I enjoyed it.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    At its core, I don't mind if someone wants to let me know about their product. Unfortunately we're in an age where it's absolutely in our faces all the time and pushed with the most brain-rotting algorithms, and they're absolutely horrendous. Every once in a while though I'll still find ads that I enjoy, mainly YouTube creators who don't just read scripts, but put in effort to make something worth watching.

    I'll always point to 'TomSka and Friends' (TomSka being the creator of the ASDFmovie series) as being decent ads; each one is a full skit and I actually enjoy those ads because they put in the effort.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    At one point in time advertisements were in dedicated sections of newspapers, magazines, posted in business windows and maaaaybe sent out in mailors. And that was about it. If you didn't want to be advertised to you didn't read the ads. When TV broadcasts first started there was an dilemma over whether people would tolerate TV commercial breaks, and whether they were even ethical since you couldn't just turn the page if you didn't want to read the ad. We're light-years beyond that mindset and level of consumer respect now. Ads that try to appear to be anything but ads, individually targeted ads, unskippable ads on CPR instructional videos, ads in search results, ads on floating billboards among the beach, ads on your refrigerator, ads on your personal tablet or laptop, ads on the damn gas pump... it's fucking dystopian.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I never would have expected to see a Dude Where's My Car reference in 2026.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    On what grounds was it banned?

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Yep. Should have just linked to this one, which works:

    https://media.mullvad.net/andthen/30s/Mullvad_AND_THEN_30s_US_ProRes422_Webmix_4K.mov

    First mistake was using a Twitter (twimg) link.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    I intentionally used Twitter/X video link instead of Mullvad website video link because Mullvad website is blocked in a good number of countries.

    On the other hand, Twitter is one of the top 10 websites globally. Which means it's guaranteed to work in most countries.

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  • 1 comment in c/privacy@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    That video was made before the UK decision. It is a general critique of all surveillance laws, globally

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