Yes! It’s a great thing! The next thing we should aim is to pass laws forcing Government instances (Germany and Netherlands already have) so politicians and institutions use those for their public/social media profiles and abandon X/Twitter/Threads and anything that isn’t decentralized. The mention of Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed in the media (when eg. journalists quote a politician) would attract more users to these platforms. I believe this is truly necessary if we want to keep democracy healthy and have our socials out of the control of crazy billionaires.
I’ve always felt that the Fediverse was perfect for governments and businesses since it disconnects them from a third party allowing them to manage their own distribution of information.
Using Twitter and so on for official government channels was a short sighted decision.
Exactly!
I’d love for more people to join but even if not there’s no going back for me 😅
Good!
Yea, it’s really awesome!
Wait, from what Nic Cage movie is that snippet again? Is it the one where he becomes a vampire?
@vesi@lemm.ee I agree, mentioning a lemmy group on a mastodon/pixelfed post also helps it get a lot more visibility
Explain Fediverse for me, I’m new! Pls and thnx
Different websites running the same program that work with each other. Lemmy is the program running on lemmy.world, where you and I both have accounts. There are other Lemmy servers that lemmy.world is compatible with. In the comments of this post you can see some user names that end with other sites in this format: name@other.lemmysite, they have accounts on different websites that also run Lemmy.
There are other programs that work this way too, like Mastodon and Pixelfed. All these websites running all these programs are “the fediverse”
I’m gonna boost this on my 'don
Why only Europe? Make the world use it. Takes profits away from reddit.
Hello, I was going to create a post about this. Is there any petition, anything we can do to push for this to happen? can we create one and spread it among eu political parties or organization that can help?
