When I opened up Lemmy this morning I could not believe my eyes. The top story was a headline from Forbes stating:
« ‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media ».
The article mostly focused on #Pixelfed and did a fairly good job explaining how #ActivityPub works. But they spelled #Mastodon « Mastadon » over and over again with no links to it. Yikes.
B for the effort, but please editors do better!
@kbsez @_elena I mean, yes, the main developer seems like he supports fascist dictators, which is uncool. Left-wing, at least, but still uncool.
But unlike with Meta and X, the political views of the guy behind the software have no repercussions on what people use the software for, as far as I can see. That's up to the instance owners.
Still, it's been enough to scare people away from Lemmy, which is in itself a problem—a more neutral stance would probably be more appealing to new users.
@kbsez @_elena There is also #mbin, though I haven't personally tried it yet. But I'd think it should be relatively painless to use that instead of Lemmy. It all being federated, you could then just subscribe to communities on Lemmy instances, which should work seamlessly?
I haven't tried it, so there's a good chance it's *not* seamless, but given that they do basically the same thing, I'm not sure why it wouldn't work. (I think I'll try it out, sometime soon.)