cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39653865

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night’s episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It’s brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
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    7 days ago

    I know what you mean, WhatsApp is still several years older than that. They added it later. WhatsApp wasn’t developed as a Signal clone, it can’t have been, but Signal seems to try to be a drop-in replacement for WhatsApp (phone number-based (yikes), focused on messaging the SMS way but with files and over the Internet, simple profile with a status message on them, E2EE…)