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Cake day: February 17th, 2026
  • Big T@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is anybody else worried about the lack of diverse opinion here?
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    16 days ago

    I think there are plenty of diverse opinions but far less bots and also in order to be drawn to the fediverse you have to be smart enough to figure out how to sign up and use it and also smart enough to see the value in decentralized social media, 90% of people just don’t get it and because that is the bar to get you get the opinions from a community composed of smarter, more informed, more open minded people. That doesn’t mean we disagree, I got banned from the stable fusion AI image generation instance cause some of the art made it into the top posts and I started talking trash about AI and it’s ethical usage. I stopped using my lemmy.word account cause they defederated a piracy instance and I rather pirate content than give fascists or billionaires my money, an issue many people would disagree with me on here.

    I’ve been apart of nerd herd for a while, I’ve gone from Slashdot, to RSS feeds, to Digg, to Reddit which reigned the longest but I’m mostly out of that hell hole aside from trouble shooting help, I was even on facebook when you had to have a college email to sign up (also out of that hell hole), and now I’m full sending Fediverse. All of these things have been best at the beginning, these communities were all made beautiful because they were not the masses, they were the people that hungered for something more. I think the fediverse is very promising, though I do worry what will happen when it becomes more mainstream, I think we got a long while till that happens and I’m also interested to see how it will go down but at the end of the day, if it enshitifies like everything else, people like me and this ones on here will find something different, maybe it’s a completely different internet like lora communities, who knows but to answer your question no I’m not worried.

  • Big T@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•The informed choice
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    22 days ago

    I am in the process of slowly buying up the hardware and learning the needed information to self host, I degoogled my life which was a hard thing and Proton was the easier place to go and it was intended to be a place holder till I feel confident enough to switch everything over to a self hosted setup. Using Proton’s VPN is more a frugal choice.

    I’ve setup my first Pi Nas (raspberry 5 pi nas) and that was my first step in my self hosting journey, I do own my domains for my emails so step 2 is to get another raspberry 5 and setup my own self hosted website server and email.

    I’ve always been a tech savvy guy but my field is manufacturing, I’m not a software or web developer like a lot of the people on here so it’s a bit of a slower pace and learning curve for me but I’m working on it. Also it doesn’t help that it’s getting more and more expensive to self host by the day.

    I do value the input and information I learn on here and appreciate the explanation.