I may am affected by brainrot
TIL Wafrn let’s you post on both Bluesky and mastodon https://wafrn.net/
That logo/mascot just turns me off. I know it’s silly and shouldn’t matter but my instincts tell me to run when I see it. Shame too, seems like a neat service.
It looks like a shitty knock off of wakfu.
Saw a post where the owner was removing posts and comments he didn’t agree with, and when called out he basically said he didn’t care and would do what he wanted. I decided then that I didn’t want to be a part of whatever bubble he was creating for himself.
Very much a FOSS hand drawn logo vibe, where the creator has…questionable art skills because they are primarily a programmer.
I think it’s nice. It’s torn the wings off the Bluesky logo.
Weird ass name too.
Be careful, you might get wooted on wafrn.
Tech should be made more accesible. Having the fediverse is nice and all, but if someone was to ask me “i don’t like reddit, what do you recommend?” I can’t even introduce them to how lemmy instances work without some eyebrows being raised let alone the whole concept of the fediverse.
Let alone the issue that moderation remain troubling, even on the fediverse. I ended up having two different accounts because some things I follow are blocked by servers where there are other things I follow, who blocks the previous ones.
So much for openness. If the only solution is to spawn my own instance to get something workable, there’s no way this will take off with the general public.
I agree and a lot of the fediverse does a terrible job at it BUT i wish people would just understand tech a bit better.
It’s ridiculous to me how much time some people spend online / on their phone without understanding as much as what a URL is or how to change basic settings. There should really be better education around technology.
I tell the normies “It’s like Reddit, but anyone can make a website that runs it, and all the websites talk to each other so a corporation can never control it” and the normies say that sounds awesome
it feels like the best way to introduce them to lemmy is simply giving them an instance. No explaining just: here, that one has a funny name. take it and be happy
Probably still getting eyebrows later but sh.itjust.works, it really does (pun very intended)No but it really doesn’t. It’s just a bit more complicated to get your head around it then just registering to reddit. That raises walls. People don’t like to jump over walls. We should make it simpler in some way, or it won’t ever grow.
It’s really not that hard. I gave my ex my Mastodon url and he signed up so he could follow me. He didn’t even know what Mastodon or the Fediverse is.
It only gets complicated when federation gets janky, eg on my Mastodon.social account I can see so many more posts that I can on my main instance. In fact, I sometimes can’t even see some of my own .social posts unless I login via that account on tusky, then open as my main account. Even though the instances are federated. I have the same issue here with this account and my alt feddit.uk account. I can see comments/communities on one instance that I can’t see on another.
I am new to the fediverse and honestly it does not seem hard to me, i just searched lemmy register landend on the lemmy.ml instance and joined then i used it as if it was reddit .-.
I’ve never understood this argument. You pick an instance you like, make an account, log in, join the comms that interest you, comment on things, make posts, etc.
This is all very normal internetty type shit that anyone who’s created an account somewhere should be able to do very easily. You don’t need to know anything about federation or how that all works. You don’t need to spin up your own self-hosted instance (but you can if you want).
Am I missing something? It’s really not rocket science here. IMHO, the “fediverse is too hard” sentiment is missing the actually difficult bit, which is getting people away from the ingrained habits formed after years of only using Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al.
Actually if there were usecases of facebook & other centralised web blog sites that was like email services, people would get it, but now that they’re used to it it’s not “natural” to get it. Most of the time, I speak of this e-mail example (even if a lot of people just use gmail. Also sometimes communities are abandonned and nobody take them back, which is a big of a stopper here. Also, nobody gets how you can post a comment from mastodon to a peertube video and why you would do it.
But maybe at some point we’ll grow bigger and answer more nicely to all these legitimate questions from all those non-technical users that wan’t to free themselves🤞Let’s spread the hype I guess ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
A sentence i like to use is: "imagine if you could use your twitter (or rather the fedi equivalent mastodon or something) account and can watch YT videos and even comment on there (also here the fedi software peertube)
I say that including the () parts (but they are quieter)
That user has a sick UI theme, though!
that user is me XD (i want to try out more fedi software)
What are you using where you have those options?
The 90s are asking to get back that UI.
Tell them to get fucked, it’s ours now!
What’s the drama?
Short version:
So it got public (or something) that a larger personality did go after a trans person and the bsky moderation team looked over it and decided to change the tos for them instead of a ban what would be appropriate as they threatened another user.
And like the entire black/trans/ally community got pissed and some part of them are now seeking new “lands”About the Waffles: Charlie Kirk liked them so a lot of people wanting to align with him are posting a bunch of waffle pictures in solidarity
Connection to Bsky: i dont know. Its a new dogwhistleI don’t think the waffles thing has anything to do with Charlie Kirk. It’s an evolution of this Twitter joke that’s being used as an excuse to ignore criticism of any kind: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/78fbwg/so_you_hate_waffles/
The waffles thing is because Jesse Singal keeps referencing a tweet that says something to the effect of “people take someone saying ‘I like pancakes’ to mean ‘I hate waffles’”, which, yeah, if you’re saying “I like straight white Christian men” you’re probably saying you hate at least some other groups but anyway that’s where the dog whistle came from.
Why does kiwifarms seem to come up lately in places I would not expect. It seems like people who become victims of their harassment have actively engaged with them at some point, and continue to feed them rather than ignore them. Which leads to things getting worse, and eventually things like death threats.
Online harassers, if you ignore them, try harder until you cannot. They’re no ordinary trolls.
Something to do with waffles, I can’t make sense of it.
i replied to the other person with the context, writing you so you get a ping
Thanks
I initially is discovered Wafrn from a linked Lemmy post, so seeing a Wafrn screenshot intended to spread Wafrn propaganda on Lemmy is so ironic to me.
@[email protected] Would I be alright to use this image in a guide I’m making about alternatives to big tech? There’s a Social Media section based around Fedi and it would be perfect as the banner.
Yes, funny things are meant to be shared (+ the post is not even mine sooooo)
Edit: here is the original if you are interested: https://app.wafrn.net/fediverse/post/6b3b1b3c-5f8a-4082-bb4f-07456d3ab8d5
I may am also affected by vineroot
@Little8Lost What the heck is #wafrn
Its intended to be like tumblr.
Has the + (or -) that it can communicate with ATproto (bsky) and activitypub (fediverse)
For me its mainly more comfy than Mastodon but i am still testing it out
