Good morning and good evening !

PieFed now support Flair :D
See this post for more information : https://piefed.social/post/716372

If you have a PieFed account, you can create a post and add its flair.

So i created few one :

  • Announcement : only moderators. Update about this community. Please, don’t use it. 😔
  • Blog : for any news and features about writefreely, wordpress
  • Forumverse : for any news and features about Lemmy, Mbin, NodeBB, PieFed
  • Media : for any news and features about Peertube, Pixelfed, Loops…
  • Microblog : for any news and features about Mastodon, Iceshrimp, Misskey
  • Discussion : For talking about…the fediverse
  • Event : for event in the fediverse as !lemmyvision@jlai.lu or !canvas@toast.ooo
  • Question : If you need help
  • Tutorial : for wiki and tuto
  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Sorry, instead of “Meta” being defunct, I meant “Meta’s Threads”. And yes, I left Facebook a long time ago, but others remain, as they choose.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        4 days ago

        Active though?

        We can see that as an opportunity though - the hunger for something is there, if we can provide a viable alternative for them to use.

        Such as PieFed:-). I haven’t tried Friendica but that too.

        • Snoopy@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          Well, if you tell them about us, irl, maybe.

          I told my familly to leave facebook after showing them various news. They didn’t move. I also told them about free software, they didn’t move.

          Beside, Meta will hide any competitors from its timeline.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
            1·
            3 days ago

            I’ve told people irl about Lemmy. 100% of them - not joking - have actively reprimanded me for having done so.

            I did not realize at the time that a Google search - not DuckDuckGo or Kagi, but mainstream normies will ofc use Google - pulls up Lemmy.ml as the top instance (DuckDuckGo pulls up Lemmy.world, as the largest and most traffiked, but Google seems to prioritize other metrics such as age or whatever?).

            And lemmy.ml, by default, to a guest not logged in, shows posts from Local rather than All.

            So the whole page is just filled with posts making fun of Westerners, for such innocuous things as having bank accounts, saying that we all need to be beheaded bc we are all “landlords” if we own any stock (I don’t btw, but since when have “facts” ever mattered to a tankie?). Especially prior to any democratic election in any Western nation, the content there is extremely blatant disinformation, of the BoTh SiDeS sAmE variety. We should NOT be sending people there, but by calling what we are as “Lemmy”, that is what ends up happening.

            And it is not just me: Reddit’s r/RedditAlternatives is filled with such stories. It helps that Blaze mentions “Discuss.Online” to Redditors as a good instance for them to join. That one has defederated from Hexbear and Lemmygrad.ml at least, shows posts from All rather than Local to a guest account, and by distancing somewhat from the Lemmy name, it allows people to be freed from that preconceived notion as they check out our actual content. And yeah, anti-Western propaganda still shows up, but at least it’s not quite as prevalent as going directly to Lemmy.ml and showing solely Local rather than All.

            The Threadiverse/Forumverse/Whatever is never going to grow if we keep allowing ourselves to be a Nazi bar. Though offering a side entrance does help a little.

            • Snoopy@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
              2·
              3 days ago

              Lemmy.ml as the top instance (DuckDuckGo pulls up Lemmy.world, as the largest and most traffiked

              That’s why i think leaving lemmy is a good thing to do. For its features : peertube, mastodon, tags, flairs and good moderation tools.

              You confirmed my worst fear. When we went to lemmy, PieFed didn’t exist yet, So we did a post explaining about lemmy and its dev. It was fine.

              We knew they were tankie but there were a language barriere, so we were in a peaceful land.

              But it they type lemmy on google i understand why no one would come…
              Maybe google also manipulated the result to show the worst lemmy community. They did a patnership with Reddit. Anyways we will never know we can’t check their algo.

              Thank for your feedback :)

              • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                A slight correction: lemmy.ml isn’t “the worst piefed community”, but rather a whole entire Lemmy instance, which itself hosts many communities, while instance-wide banning anyone who does not support Russia, China, or North Korea hard enough. All major nations these days seem to be actively supporting genocide, yet if you go there, you are left with the impression that those nations never do anything wrong, while it is the big evil USA and the EU and such that are the bad guys.

                For example, this image just before the USA election, portraying how people should not vote for Biden/Harris bc bOtH sIdEs SaMe:

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                • Snoopy@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  Thank, that was a huge mistake, sorry. i wrote to fast. I corrected it.

                  Yep, those meme sent during a crucial event are vote manipulation. Far right movement use those tactic. I received meme during the french senate election. Come back to facebook, animated a page against far right movement. Horrible. I had to deactivate pictures and memes.

                  I prefer talking about another lighter topic. :)

                  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
                    1·
                    3 days ago

                    Yes, absolutely. Though when we invite people here, and they browse “Lemmy” (which Google told them meant lemmy.ml) by Local rather than All, then you get the impression that “Lemmy” is a bunch of tankie trolls. And by that metric, it is!? Especially when you dig deeper and see lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net doing similar if not worse.

                    We may prefer quieter browsing, but we should be mindful of the experiences that others have, when they come to check out “Lemmy”. The likes of e.g. Discuss.Online and Lemmy.World are extremely different from lemmy.ml. But people won’t know that. And when the write their stories on r/RedditAlternatives, they don’t understand so they aren’t able to distinguish between those.

                    Hence, if we fail, it will be because we are a Nazi bar. We need to do better.

                    And we are doing better, on PieFed, on Mbin, and on many Lemmy instances. We are building that better world that we want to see!:-)