With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it's scary. And so I'd like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.

I personally hate it when I'm stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you're reading this, the likely chance is you're the same.

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn't of enough substance to be worth anyone's time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won't have to visit walled gardens so often.

Thank you :)

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[–] frankspurplewings@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a list or links somewhere of the defederated basic site replacements?

Like I know about Lemmy (replacement for reddit), Loops (replacement for ticktock/reels), and pixelfed (replacement for insta). Oh and I switched from Spotify to tidal. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Is there a YouTube replacement? Thats really the next big media channel I use daily..

Thanks Lemmy friends 💜

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

This is a good place to start: https://fedidb.org/software/

I like the idea of PeerTube and hope it catches on, but I wouldn't call it a YouTube replacement at this point. There are services that feed youtube content to users remotely though (there is/was a link-converter bot that went around that annoyed some people here, but a) can't remember the name, and b) can't remember the actual software involved).

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 28 minutes ago

I'd love to see nothing but PeerTube links in the fediverse. YouTube has become almost unusable for me.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 6 hours ago

Piped bot I believe it was called?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago

can’t remember the name

https://invidious.io/

But nowadays I would rather recommend https://grayjay.app/ or https://freetubeapp.io/