When you want to share a image you found on PieFed, don’t download and share the image, just share the PieFed link.
This way the people or person you’re sharing it with might discover PieFed without you pushing it.
It also works great like this https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTheWorld/comments/1md2npo/what_is_the_best_power_outlet_and_why
(does not work with old.reddit )
This will also improve SEO, and PieFed etc. might start popping up on search engine results more, and people will start to see and trust the Fediverse more.
If anyone wants to give me shit for using WhatsApp or Reddit, please see Discussion: Do Not Reject Imperfect Allies
Lmao reddit is not an “imperfect ally” it is a Nazi cesspit and that has literal former CIA on its moderation staff.
No one is talking about the platform as an “imperfect ally”, we are talking about the people who still use it. THEY can be allies, the majority of them don’t even know about all the stuff these platforms do
Somehow I get the feeling you would have attracted less people being nasty if you just did not mention it, though I understand your intent was to get ahead of these people. I think it’s better to join hands with people who are not 100% pure on their tech usage but align in attitudes and goals for what you want the world to look like, than to go “hey have you stopped using this platform, dipshit?” It feels less like actually trying to help and get you off a bad platform, and more like finding an acceptable target for ad hominem attacks. Just because someone has high minded goals to try to stop enabling bad companies does not mean they are immune to wanting someone they can vent anger on and treat badly while not getting pushback for it.
Especially if work forces you on a shit platform, it is harder for most people to get a new job than it is to tell them to use a new platform and actually get listened to instead of being deemed “not a team player” and fired for being a dissident. Sadly people need to eat to live, so taking an ideological stand on avoiding WhatsApp completely is not always possible. Bend the knee or starve, and most people do not want to starve, especially if it seems as small an issue as being one person propping up a bad company by using it. Some people have dependents. People have to pick their battles on what they’ll risk. I get it, I turn my nose up at TikTok and Facebook and find myself feeling worse towards people who are voluntarily there, but I make my stance clear and then try not to bug them. Nobody’s perfect. No ethical consumption under capitalism and all that.
I won’t give you shit but I will hand you a warm poop
Let’s try it your way: Hey, great that you use Lemmy! Have you also considerd to stop sucking Zuckerbergs dick by not using Whatsapp?
Thanks, yes I have. Unfortunately convincing everyone I know and work with to do the same takes tike.
Nobody cares
Yeah but piefed sucks. Their developers are just technocrat wannabes who hard code their software against federation from communist spaces like hexbear.
banned_instances = ['anonib.al', 'lemmygrad.ml', 'gab.com', 'rqd2.net', 'exploding-heads.com', 'hexbear.net', 'threads.net', 'noauthority.social', 'pieville.net', 'links.hackliberty.org', 'poa.st', 'freespeechextremist.com', 'bae.st', 'nicecrew.digital', 'detroitriotcity.com', 'pawoo.net', 'shitposter.club', 'spinster.xyz', 'catgirl.life', 'gameliberty.club', 'yggdrasil.social', 'beefyboys.win', 'brighteon.social', 'cum.salon', 'wizard.casa']Piefed was originally a personal project rimu coded for themselves. They have since taken quite a few aspects that were originally hardcoded and made them optional instead. If someone asked him to do that with this particular thing, it will probably happen as well.
Wow I did not know this. Really puts the “Fed” in Piefed LMAO.
Now I’m even more disappointed that a dbzer0 governance post regarding a sister Piefed instance was so popular…
Nice idea, feel free to crosspost to !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Edit: just noticed you already did
Getting users to share links instead of images that break fault tolerance, accessibility, SEO, & the web: an unsolved problem of computer science right up there with
- Getting users to post text instead of screenshots of text.
Good luck.
I do this pretty often but it helps being on an instance with a good domain. Like I don’t mind sharing from my leminal space account but something like shititjustworks makes people question if its a virus lol, luckily links unfurl usually so they don’t have to click it for the image
This is the way.
I’m struggling to comprehend how it would ‘destroy innocent people’. Maybe an aide to an identified individual no longer has a job?
It’s genius in how vague it is, because it’s up to your interpretation, which they can always dodge and say they meant something else.
I think the strongest possibilities are they are either stretching the definition of “innocent” to include people who [REDACTED] kids (as one of their recent goal posts is that it’s normal for people in power), or priming the subconscious narrative that the evidence has been fabricated, as Trump has recently started claiming.
