Welcome :)

Nice to hear. :)

What convinced you to join?

Good idea. But I think it’s better to explain that later, when people are already curious :)

Why?

True. That’s currently not possible

You can subscribe to and comment in Lemmy communities from Mastodon.

Interesting. How would you put this into a picture?

My friend (the average social media user) also didn’t seem too interested in it. I can imagine something interesting for the average user in a video but not in an image.

I’m not much of a designer 😅

Damn, conservatism has been completely consumed by MAGA

Here is the file link. Let’s create multiple versions :D

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGjBaOKTmM/mVzeYlpGz2MwWMdMhFqQIg/edit

(Sorry for the proprietary service!)

That’s cool too, but way too much text for it to be quickly consumed on a small display. This is more for the second stage when people are already curious and want to learn more, in my opinion.

That’s cool but I think that’s too technical for the average social media user

Simply put your Mastodon profile URL into the search.

Eg. https://europe.pub/u/luislavena@mastodon.social

But it works better the other way around

Not right now, unfortunately. But it looks like tags like on Reddit are planned in the future. Right now I’d just create a post with the specific question. There are helpful people, for sure. :)

Maybe !math@lemmy.world ?

Net neutrality

To my knowledge net neutrality only covers internet providers and not search engines or other platforms.

That’s sad

So let’s repost all of the popular Reddit content here ;D

Would your friends stay exclusively on Discord if they would ban you?

I’d imagine they would be ready to join another platform to stay in touch with you. And I don’t mean that they’ll immediately stop using Discord completely but use both simultaneously.

Something being free and open source doesn’t mean it’s good

True. But it’s verifiable.

It’s FOSS and you’ve looked at the code and found it to live up to its claims of being secure?

Popular FOSS projects get audited all the time. Heck, there is even automated software to detect anomalies in code changes.

Auditability is the only reason why you can only really trust open source but not closed source. With proprietary software you’ll always have to trust the developers to not do something shady and are competent enough. With open source you can simply verify it.

Also being open source is what usually makes popular FOSS more stable and secure than most closed counterparts. A LOT of people donate their work and since it’s completely public, most want their contributions to be in good shape. If only a few or no other people see your code, you are tempted to write bad code a lot more. This of course is not always the case but more often than not.

Also in most developed countries it’s illegal to purposefully introduce manipulated code. And I don’t think most people would risk punishment for that if literally anybody could find it.

I’m trying to show that the particulars of why you like or prefer something matter.

Sure. But most people don’t care about the details, unfortunately. In the case of messaging they just want to communicate. And if someone asks me, which platform I’d recommend I will always start with the most secure and private.