Masterful comment delivery, kudos

Tbh I think you can one time drop a very friendly but more direct: “hey have you guys thought about posting your stuff in a music community on Lemmy? It’s like reddit but smaller and with a very engaged audience. I think they’d dig you there!” Or something to that effect. Just don’t be a dick about it or spam them.

A lot of them don’t know about or don’t understand the fediverse. We need to be more proactive in asking this of the artists we love. I’ll try to be better about doing my part to mention the fediverse to artists in my sphere, an especially good fit given the DIY roots of the punk/hardcore lineage of much of it.

Honestly Marketplace is the best argument for FB today. How it has usurped Craigslist I don’t understand, maybe because it’s easier to navigate, but you’re right that it is the defacto modern market.

I don’t use it so I forget about it, but this is a good counterpoint.

Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.

Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.

At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.

Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.

It remains insane to me that it’s so hard for so many to just, not use them. Truly, your life is not being enriched by twitter or Facebook. You can delete your account and I promise you won’t find yourself missing them.

With you 100%. The way niche (note I didn’t say unimportant, keyboard warriors) issues are propped up as focal points in political discourse has all the markings of manipulated discourse, imo.

I always say that if leftists could ever learn the lesson “perfect is the enemy of good” then we could actually radically change the world.

I mean yes, you’re welcome to visit my home unless you’re a hateful piece of shit.

You’re welcome to visit the bar unless you come in acting like a belligerent asshole.

You’re implying some contradiction as if this isn’t how this has always worked.

A welcoming person does not welcome Nazis into a space where people are welcome.

Maybe I’m stupid or something, but I’ve always found Discord complicated as hell to use for anything whereas Vent is simple af

Honestly, what was wrong with Ventrillo for voice and literally any forum software for everything else?

The Lemmy devs have arguably pretty worse philosophy but dev with a sense of integrity and don’t inject their politics into their software.

The Piefed devs have arguably much better philosophy but do directly build that into their app development.

I’m sorry, I don’t think that’s an improvement.

I don’t want brands to think there’s a loophole they can exploit by half-heartedly endorsing FOSS for nefarious advertising. “Coke tastes great with the user agency of Linux” is still an ad for Coke.

Yeah but it seems clear from @MonsterMonster@lemmy.world’s comment that they also think this is frivolity, so the unrelated niche market is a moot point in this case.

Why though? Why does he want a networked dishwasher at all? There’s no benefit or reason for that in the first place

Yeah unfortunately while law should mostly exist to protect the vulnerable from the powerful, instead many US laws such as libel exist mostly to allow the powerful to muzzle the vulnerable

Yes but all outcasts are not equal. I’m happy to share a meal with communists, but I’ve got no interest wasting my time with extreme right-wingers.