Take Back Control Of Social Media & Decentralize Your Life

[@biasedriot3603]

Pleroma is another great federated site I touched on in a video of mine. I genuinely think that federated/decentralised sites are the only way for us to take back control of our internet use.

[@dbell1894]

Federation is not safe or secure. Federation is basically trusting several unaccountable and unnamed Oriole with your data instead of one large corporation that is legally accountable.

[@itguyeric]

Great video, my friend! I've been watching the Facebook policy changes lately and its got me wanting to leave the platform altogether. This video was a GREAT, quick overview of whats out there.

[@cryptovision2024]

I'm looking forward to your next video; keep up the great work!

[@DanielFridlandd]

Great video. Thanks for doing this 👍

[@youp1tralala]

Excellent video but you should ask yourself first if you really need all these cool services (decentralized or not) craving for your attention, especially the social network ones. Sometimes, less is more...

[@dasgeek]

Great point

[@RockawayCCW]

I agree. It turns out that all of us being connected all the time is probably not a good idea.

[@theethans898]

I think it’s important for spreading information without censorship

[@Guarrow]

You bring a very good point, but I als would say that with the fediverse and the services that are in that sphere, you will basically allow yourself to ... let got a little bit. What I mean is that centralized services like Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, crave for your attention. They have precise algorithms to determine what will interest you, what will make you click, what will make you express emotions and post stuff. There's not so much of that in Mastodon and services like it. Mastodon doesn't strive on what's worst in humans, and it doesn't need you to react and have an opinion on every subject there is. So, as much as they look like centralized services, they don't crave your attention as much as the centralized do, hence why I think it'll always feel better to use them

[@chrisradtke]

I think it's die-ass-poor-ah, which is what most of us will end up doing one day 😎

[@dasgeek]

This I can remember, you sir know how to teach =)

[@AlaKernel]

The Main Issue is the network Effect .

[@OGPimpin]

Man this sounds really dope. Im definitely gonna have to check this bad boy out

[@StijnHommes]

As for Diaspora, that one fails of the bat. A social media platform is only as good as the people using it -- no one I want to talk to is on Diaspora. And before I would get to see all the content I want, I'd have to add a LOT of followed tags. Why not just do it the other way around: Show everything except the tags you have blacklisted. The way it is set up right now, you'll never learn anything about a new subject outside your tags.

[@Mark6O9]

Its very confusing to use Mastadon mostly because of the domains instead of using one singular domain

[@dasgeek]

It is more confusing but that's also its greatest strength since no single entity controls the platform.

[@lacavilosa2.438]

i did not know ..THERE IS A WHOLE UNIVERSE OUT THERE...parallel digital universes😳😲😲☺☺🧐🧐🙂🙂digital heavens for us...digital refugees..

[@ShereeOstroski]

Great content, as always! Just a quick off-topic question: I have a SafePal wallet with USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?

[@chapmansbg]

bro seems like a massive push to support you financially.

[@mattig89ch]

Is there a tutorial on how to set this up on your local machine?

[@t1kt0k_gaming]

Great vid sir.

[@dasgeek]

Thank you!

[@everlastingos]

How about Feeds network?

[@mctactical]

Do you do any private consulting in this area for someone who is developing in this space?

[@AcidiFy574]

If you think Odysee (a front end to LBRY) is slow then use librarian (Invidious but LBRY)

[@TylerCrowl]

Any suggestions on getting away from my Gmail?

[@dasgeek]

ProtonMail or Tutanota are my favorite gmail alternatives

[@TylerCrowl]

@@dasgeek thx for the reply. I’ll do my reading into those. Any thoughts on Zoho mail? I was looking into it after commenting and their full customer relationship management toolkit seems attractive.

[@dasgeek]

@@TylerCrowl It does look like a great product. I like how they talk a lot about privacy and security, however, without being open source it's really hard to tell. I would use them over some of the mainstream e-mail clients but I feel more comfortable with ProtonMail.

[@mr.smiles9948]

Was just on mine and people were discussing why putting tarter sauce on steak. Lots of dog, cats photos. Been on for year and half, still never seen a political extreme post. Go on Twitter for 2 secs find a bunch of political extreme posts.

[@inakim.v.5776]

Fine. You only forgot Friendica.

[@atticusherodes6648]

why do some of these things and titles remind me so much of newsgroups?

[@dasgeek]

Ahh newsgroups...I remember those.

[@CheapHomeTech]

Thanks

[@OerythiaDeQuatrefages]

Yes but with Mastodon aren't you trapped in an echo chamber never challenged by divergeant viewpoints? I have nothing against folks telling things I don't align with. “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”-Aristotle. One good thing is that there are no advertisements.

[@declinedyt5565]

Much like other socials

[@IAMschizoaffective]

Middle part

[@givingin2G4Courtz]

EXCEPT these approaches are STILL CENTRALIZING, just on some other big tech companies' servers. They're still MY DATA out of MY CONTROL living on SOMEBODY ELSE's computer NOT in my SOCIAL NETWORK, or they require me to set up my own web server and then manage and secure it myself, controlling access myself, which is a tad much to ask of your uncle Joe or my aunt Mary. Can't we DO BETTER?! Networked application software doesn't NEED to involve AWS nor Google/Alphabet, nor FB/Meta

[@jaymandell6034]

Its pronounced dye - ass - per- ruh 😉

[@dasgeek]

Thank you

[@jaymandell6034]

Guess I should have read the comments first... someone already posted the same thing except it was funny.

[@ozislife8527]

cooool

[@bitsurface5654]

Come on Ryan, if You don't care about politics and politicians, you give them the right to govern over You, and I think that this in not what You intended to say. So I hope strongly that this was just a bad example.

[@dasgeek]

I said I don’t want to hear about others opinions on politics, not that I don’t have any of my own. Random strangers on Twitter and Facebook are not the place to be getting your political insights or doing research.

[@foggycraw6758]

More eco chambers. Just what the world needs

[@ashishpatel350]

kekistan federation.

[@dasgeek]

Not going to lie, I had to look this up.

[@jasonsmith8548]

Wow Didn't know I was subbed to a neonazi

[@dasgeek]

You’re mistaking these service for Facebook. That’s where they all hung out. Do some research and educate yourself please.

[@randgrithr7387]

Wow, I can't believe there was a neonazi I wasn't subbed to yet.

[@StijnHommes]

And element is just as useless. My friends and family are on WhatsApp and Telegram --> guess who I can't communicate with in element... Services are supposed to meet my needs, not just provide some political jabs at social media from cynical, jaded and banned people who don't read TOS.