@DocPop has a video on this

Thanks for necroing so I could find this thread, Berv.

I like the concept of the Fediverse, but I’m not keen on Mastodon or Lemmy due to their censorship. Resistance to censorship is the biggest advantage to federation. If I wanted to be censored, I’d stay on the platforms with more users and/or better user experience (otherwise) that already do that. Kbin probably would’ve been better about this, but their servers never recovered from the Reddit exodus. At least they’re more private than Discord or Meta.

For communication regarding yoyo content, Discourse (i.e. this platform) is already open-source, has no ads, is relatively private, and functions very well imo. Only small con for me is that speech is restricted - inconsistently, but I digress - to keep the focus on kid-friendly yoyo content. Other than that, it’s good enough for me.

I quit Twitter/X when Musk started to make his beliefs felt by all. Mastodon is fine, but limited. Bluesky I currently like. Reddit less useful since open searches are hidden behind Google.

For yoyo discussion, this is the best place. Established, content mature and, importantly, well moderated.

Why bold?

To differentiate from “Discord” and “Discourse”, is my assumption, both of which are apps in the “social media” sphere so it can get confusing quickly

I still like phpbb more

Couldn’t have said this better myself

I too like to make raspberries occasionally

phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board) is alternative forum software compared to Discourse which is what YYEF currently uses.

I’m not the biggest fan of Discourse because I feel like it tried to alter the structure of forums to be closer to social media. I don’t like the way that the react button can drive interactions and lead to people creating low quality posts just for low effort engagement. And the structure of the home page as an active feed feels very chaotic and disorganized.

I’m nitpicking really, I’m very glad the YYE forums are around and there’s much worse forum software than Discourse.

Apologies if I’m just stating things you already knew, I just felt like my last post was so low quality it warranted a proper response.

No worries. I was making a joke on the onomatopoeia, however, thank you for explaining phpBB to me

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I’ve used Signal for ages, and I love it. I just applied for a PeerTube account. I tried loops and don’t like it, and I won’t be using Frendica.

Well that’s handy

If you’re looking at signal for private/encrypted message, it’s since come out that that’s not actually the case and Signal is more than happy to share messages with local law enforcement, no warrant needed

Edit: Revising due to wires being crossed. This was Telegram. Warrants issued and processed spiked after CEO was arrested for refusal to share data. Additionally, Ukraine gov’t restricted its use in gov’t and military due to security risks. I won’t link links due to it’s political nature, but easy enough to find online with the info I’ve shared

I love using Mastodon and the folks that I met there. It was hard ditching Twitter a few years back, but I’m glad I did because Mastodon has made the social web more fun again. For folks who may not be familiar with it, the fediverse is a version of the social web where you can connect and interact with users on other platforms. So if I post to Mastodon, folks on Pixelfed can reply and interact with my posts from within Pixelfed. It’s also possible to move around servers without losing any of your followers. All of that means that it’s decentralized and impossible for any one person or company to purchase. Of course that decentralization also means there’s a bit of a learning curve to get started too.

Honestly, the fediverse reminds me a lot of the early days of Twitter and Instagram, where I had to explain how @ replies worked, what hashtags were for, and why someone would join a service “just to share photos of their lunch”. I hope that in a few years, the fediverse is as easy a concept for folks as Instagram is today.

As someone mentioned earlier, I have been publishing a lot of videos about the fediverse, including this short explainer about it that I’m really proud of, but I think a great starting point might be JenJen’s guide to Mastodon for artists (only four minutes long!).

I spent 17 years growing my audience on Twitter, and never never imagined the site would fall apart as quickly as it did. Now I’m worried about the same thing happening on Youtube or Instagram, so that’s why I’m exploring alternatives, even if they aren’t thriving yet. In fact, Instagram has just rolled out a few new policies and changes (like I talk about in this video) that have me worried it’s about it’s future too.

hey so ive found zero evidence for this claim and you’ve not included any sources. why are you spreading misinformation?

My apologies! You are correct, I have edited my OP and I’ll share my quote in this reply so it shows as new to people who have already visited but wouldn’t think to reply

Ditching Twitter felt really hard for me because I’d been on the platform since 2007, and was operating so heavily under the mindset of “Well I don’t enjoy looking at Twitter/Instagram, so replacing those with an account on a new social media site just isn’t something I actually want.”

I nade a bluesky account a bit ago and only seeing posts made or shared by accounts I follow has actually made me enjoy the concept of social media again. Twitter still has this as an option but being defaulted to the for you tab is actually such an awful design that has made the site borderline unusable especially after the death of tweetdeck.

I think there’s gonna be a lot of reluctance of people wanting to swap or give newer things a chance from people with the same mindset I had. Where they’re conflating a dislike of the current popular social media platforms with the dislike of social media as a concept.

This forum and discord are the only places I really frequent heavily. If I could cut it all I would probably be better off but alas that’s not how it works

Hadn’t heard of that one previously. Looks interesting. I get what you mean about emojis rewarding low-effort content.

@megachicken289 Still, Session > Signal.

Fwiw, I have no opinion either way. I don’t know enough people to need/use/justify-the-use-of any of them. I just know of them and have heard things about them