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It’s kinda bland, but there are some neat creators there like this couple biking the world and documenting it on a pinephone running sxmo.

I’d like all these creators to be on PeerTube, but I get it hosting is daunting, and discovey in a centralized system is easier, so platforms line Odyssey. The crypto and free speech stuff attract a certain segment too, right or wrong. Their new effort to be a youtube front-end will put them in competition with invidious and similar too.

Agree. If only I could convince more of my friends to drop siloed socials and get fediverse accounts, I’d have a solution for that, but that’s not happening.

TIL about that option, thanks.

https://search.marginalia.nu/ is pretty awesome for getting human generated / small web content.

If I’m looking for people sharing my hyper-fixation https://aboutideasnow.com/ is excellent. https://searchmysite.net/ is a indieweb opti-in only tool with similar usecases but not much is there. Lemmy

https://www.mojeek.com/ I have as my default browser search to try to support as its the only real large index comparable to Google and Bing (DDG uses), but it falls short a lot.

DDG is my primary engine when I need something fast / the others don’t work.

If I can’t find it in the small web and regular search fails, I’ll sometimes try the udm14 Google trick https://udm14.com/

After that its posting to the askfedi hashtag (or ask here)

I forgot the LemmyWtf Peertube community had this directory of recommendations: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

Outside of what others posted, here’s a quick list:

North American Urbanists: CanadianCivil has Paige Saunders, OhTheUrbanity, and Shifter. Urbanists.video has Heartland Urbanist

FOSS stuff: Penpot (foss figma, they have their own instance) Emacsconf (on Toobnix)

Fedi folks: Elena Rossini (on her own instance)

Fedi.video is a great place to discover other stuff outside of just using Sepia/in-app searching by what you’re looking for.

I wouldn’t mind age or “is a person” verification done with privacy protecting means, such as GNU Taler blind signed token solutions that are open source and audited by independent security teams, but that isn’t getting implemented. Instead every “verification” service is a literal privacy nightmare simultaneously linking identity to speech and harvesting user data for sale.

Non-EU parts of the world should be encouraged to have better data privacy laws as part of their trade deals with the EU.

It should be illegal to not allow unlocking the bootloader, but it is very common.

Looking at its Wikipedia entry, it looks like a reasonable alternative, I hadn’t looked into it before.

Have you had the chance to try it out?

Not reviewed in this eval:

• DeltaChat (though would likely score similar to Signal with more points for decentralization)
• IRC
• XMPP
• Lemmy/PieFed/Nodebb (if he’s going to include Discourse…)

Looks like its available as opt-in, but as part of their premium / ee not FOSS build. Bummer.

So Rocket.Chat (which TIL can federate to Matrix)?

Looks like its showing in the DDG results for me this evening.

https://fedi-search.com/ which just adds the site parameters for different popular instances for the major search engines is probably the closest we have.

Marginalia.nu at least indexes the small web, but to my knowledge doesn’t really index the fedi yet.

The web instances work pretty well, that’s a shame the iOS app didn’t work for you. I’m only a consumer not a producer of video content so I interact with a fedi microblogging platform instead of having an account on a peertube platform itself. The Android app seemed okay but following users with RSS and interacting via my microblogging account, as well as directly checking my favorite platforms’ sites occasionally for serendipity seems to work the best for me.

I’m sure with the fundraising blitz the apps will get better too this year.

https://theindiebeat.fm/ - in many ways a successor to RadioFreeFedi that plays a variety of channels of Fedi indie artists. Plays opted in artists hosted on Bandwagon.

http://stream.live.vc.bbcmedia.co.uk/bbc_world_service - sometimes listen when I want a news fix

http://live.lora924.de:8000/lora-hq.mp3 - public radio in München, trying to learn more German and its a decent mix of talk and music.

Meanwhile https://joinloops.org/ and https://joinpeertube.org/ keep getting better and better

Hopefully more creators will take notice and at least crosspost their content on better platforms too.

Outside getting people to join a fedi platform, Matrix instance, or Signal, all a non-trivial ask, you could see if they’re on Discord or WhatsApp already, which while neither is great at least its a step away. You could do a simple SMS group, if you are okay with the privacy risks - almost everyone still had a phone number.

Post mail surprisingly is still a thing too if you are okay with delayed messages and there being cost.

You can get the RSS feed and check it in a feed reader, for example for Sh.itjust.works you can use the feed https://sh.itjust.works/feeds/local.xml?sort=Active .

I’m not aware of any Lemmy app having such a feature though.

I predict it’ll go Meta and have fake accounts to keep engagement up plus a “AI matchmaker” assistant that will tell you its “advice” on the situation, mostly to get you to add more personal information.

The company is probably already using user data to build gay-interest advertising models for capitalism and gay-dar models for tyrants, but this policy will let them more openly sell that data.