I don’t like Tusky because the developer takes a political stance to what instances he will allow to use with the app.

If this is true, then they’re similarly abusing power like the big corporations does. It’s worse even. they are left with less choice. this is in fact some sort of oppression. if we don’t want them to be around then we can simply ban them from the servers, and that’s enough. let the nazi have their little own shower party, we shouldn’t choose people we deem as sick to further them away from our society. that would even make them more solid and have more stronger feelings against us. remember, they are just humans like you and me, once also an innocent child who may be just like you at first. rather than doing that we should just leave them be, oppression isn’t just the way.

you’re talking as if you’re actually older than me

what does /s mean? I still don’t get it.

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nah use brave

Yes! please consider it, I’ll always be waiting for that to happen.

I’ll ask the prompt writer’s of reddit to also post their WP here, so to contribute.

so unlike reddit, lemmy’s vision is to create purely a link aggregator, not a blog.

well alot would disagree, but I know some cases where you want to follow someone from certain topics;

• for an example in reddit, in r/writingprompts. some would follow someone to enjoy more of their writings.

• maybe a creator links to a blog they have that doesn’t have a comment section. the followers would want to follow the creator in this case.

• in mystery related subs, they want to follow a content creator that solves mysteries with users on there. I know that’s a big thing on reddit.

• and some people might bring up more interesting topics than others, and when that happens, people tend to follow them. it still can be a topic-focused community.

though if you’re making a different thing, that’s fine. I’m saying that it might be a good thing for communities to have a follow feature. lemmy still can stay topic-focused.

I also think that platforms that are more intuitive for discussion is far better for microblogging. I liked reddit as a platform for everything, because things are divided in topics/interests/communities. and because of the design of the comments, everyone is engaging with everyone else. not like twitter and mastodon, where people just have comments that have little to no interaction. It’s somewhat a miserable place for users to be in.

TL;DR, lemmy has potential to replace reddit altogether, I think once users realize that they can use lemmy for everything they do on reddit. they will definitely come here. because It’s a far better alternative for them.

the thing is, this thing is not just for lemmy. I’m looking for a name that we could use universally for our community. (since were gonna do github projects, have our own website, a youtube/peertube channel, etc. … maybe even take over the world lol, just joking :) )

I get all of what you said, but, I don’t think we should be so pessimistic about it. if things are depressing, instead of accepting it, you should keep moving forward, and let it be the drive to change what shitty reality is given to people like us.

All it needs is a movement, or a driving force of some passionate people. or even, it would start with just one person, a madman who wants to lead others to an objective that is seemingly close to impossible. It could even be you, I believe anyone with a working brain, even if he’s more dumb than anyone in this world, could be the one who solves the world’s most complicated problem.

Moreover, there is a few ideas up here that no one on earth has attempted, see the problem? we have too much people not doing anything despite complaining about their problems. less then 1% of us actually make a change.

Well, to make it seem less impossible to some people. these corporate companies are ran by humans like you and me, they have weaknesses and flaws. if even they can do it then why shouldn’t we?

one of my favorite quotes;

“Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner.”

― Roy T. Bennett

I suggest that we all keep our heads up, and keep trying, until we get there.

even if you can’t afford to pay for internet, you can still browse facebook; as they pay the ISPs to allow people access to facebook for free despite not paying for an internet connection

we definitely lack the advantage of assets now, we probably won’t be doing something as fancy as facebook making it browseable without having internet, we can still do something else, regardless of not having a pile of cash.

what you said there, gave me a bit of an insight to the problems we have in fediverse, I think I can come up with a plan;

we can make a detailed-comparison of Fediverse platforms and Corporate platforms. I’m not talking about a small “comparison type of blog”. every little detail, features, design, advantages, what it lacks, etc. to serve as a guide for the developers to tackle what’s important, and what the general mass wants in our platforms.

what’s more, we could list out all of the problems that we have, from the most important to least important to tackle. to avoid the paradox of choice, once the page is complete.

we’ll make the page open source on github, so people could make pull requests to update that comparison.

(I’ll need some people to help write the page with me, we should figure out also the structure of the page first also.)

then again, this is just an idea, if people want to follow me and create a community together, I’ll do it.

my goal isn’t to make people I know use the fediverse, It’s the opposite. and It’s going to be pretty hard for people to convince those to use the fediverse. since everyone is used to using the same old stuff.

I disagree on focusing locally, I’ll respect your opinion though.