cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39653865

John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night’s episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

It’s brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo

If you’ve been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they’re excited about the idea. I’ve really enjoyed reading through them :)

  • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
    7·
    8 days ago

    Not really.

    I’m a big signal proponent, but it’s very barebones. There is a half ass story implementation, but otherwise, it’s a pretty lean messaging application with voice and video and that’s pretty much it.

    Signal doesn’t really have a mechanism for following accounts the way you can on telegram and WhatsApp, and while it supports group chats, it’s more akin to an old school group text rather than a channel like on telegram or Whatsapp.

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      6·
      8 days ago

      I guess I didn’t know WhatsApp caught up that much to Telegram, the WhatsApp I knew used to support group chats and voice calls but nothing like channels, supergroups and following users, yet.

          • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
            2·
            7 days ago

            I am forced to use WhatsApp for work and a few groups. Until last half of 2023 they literally had nothing.

            They had no polls, no channels, communities, not even reactions… more barebones than signal to be honest. I was surprised when I switched mostly to signal. Now they have passed signal in terms of “features” again, but indeed no stories like signal.

            I don’t know a single person who follows something on whatsapp. That is just not what it does well at all.