T Jedi

A few things I really liked about this episode:

First, is good to see Lemmy being mentioned before Mastodon when the theme is Fediverse. Everybody here knows the “Fediverse is not only Mastodon”, but it is very very good for it to be mentioned outside of our “bubble”.

Also, Jakob is the second LMG crew member I have confirmed to be in the Fediverse, Emily Young being the first one ( @[email protected] go follow her). But Emily always was the “weird person that uses Linux” in the videos, so it was not a surprise for me she was using “alternative social media”. Jakob was a surprise for me. Is he a weird and funny person? He is! But I didn’t get the “Fediverse vibe” from him. Which is good. Very good.

Again, is good to see the Fediverse start to show in (a little) more mainstream media. In such positive way.

Jakob, I have a feeling you’re reading this comments. I love your work, good to see you here. Hope you bring more people to the Fediverse. Keep being you.

Other governments:

• CH 🇨🇭: https://social.admin.ch
• DE 🇩🇪: https://social.bund.de
• FR 🇫🇷: https://social.numerique.gouv.fr
• NL 🇳🇱: https://social.overheid.nl

I’m just waiting for the president of my country to start federating, then I can follow him from Mastodon and delete my Threads account.

I see it as a positive thing

I do see some cases where “experience using our product is a plus”, but the way it was told you as a “negative feedback” I feel is wrong.

They probably don’t want to spend time training a new employee on their product, which to me is a huge red flag. You dodged a bullet there.

My country (Brazil) doesn’t have any regulations about it. Don’t know about the EU.

It is for everyone. I’m not a photography nerd and have an account that I post sporadically.

If you want to browse any instance, you can go to that instance home page and click “explore”. Example: https://pixelfed.social/web/explore

Hope you accomplish your mission to bring your friends to FediVerse. It is a little sad that the communication with Lemmy is not good at the moment.

You are correct that exception implies “deficiency”. But, in my view, I think you’re approaching it the wrong way.

Firstly, recognizing that a “class” is “deficient”, in the sense of having special needs, is neither insulting nor problematic. A child has different needs then an adult, which are different from an old person. Not creating “exceptions” for a huge class as children or elderly is the problematic behavior. The same applies for gender, race, religion, and other “class” of people which are not of “cultural dominance”.

So, if the society does to provide “exceptions” for this “classes” of people, the society itself is the one that is “deficient” in providing the needs of its people. Specially if that “system” is already created without those classes of people in mind. Shouldn’t a restaurant, built on the top of a stairway, create a way for persons on wheelchairs to enjoy its food? Or is it insulting for those people to have an accessible way that the majority of the people will not use?

Not blind, but I have two followers on Mastodon who are, and I asked about their experience.

They said the “Mastodon etiquete” of describing images makes it better to use than any of the “mainstream” social media they use.

Since I found they are following me I doubled down on describing images. It is specially pleasant trying to describe a meme the funniest way possible.

Brazilian Portuguese does have lots of anus related sayings.

Perfectly balanced, as everything should be

I feel there are a lot of philosophical and practical similarities between the FediVerse and the open source operating system world. That’s why a lot of people tend to be on both.

The thing about the FediVerse is that you are the only responsible for your feed. Try looking for different content, different people, or different instances, to find more content that resonates more with you and follow those accounts and communities.