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 :)

    • ultracritical@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 hours ago

      More like WhatsApp is a Signal clone. Whatsapp uses the signal protocol for its encryption. Or at least it did until the Zuck took it closed source. It’s still at least, in part, signal though.

      Course Signal is still very barebones. Great for a secure messenger, but not as super featured like telegram. Would’ve been nice if they kept SMS compatibility though.

    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world
      6·
      13 hours 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
        5·
        13 hours 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.

    • David@masto.es
      11·
      15 hours ago

      @lord_ryvan @Evotech It may not be the most private (unless you use private chat), but Telegram is the best alternative to WhatsApp, both in terms of user count and usability. It’s the easiest transition.