i came up with the idea of a no meta may challenge super last minute and i’ve been enjoying a migraine all day, so i’m taking a break. not a great time for a break when the first day of the challenge ends today but it’s probably fine

i know it’s not great and not everyone will agree with my choices; at the end of the day i think we can all at least agree that the alternatives are still an improvement over staying with meta

thinking i might want to increase the font size on the challenges

if you think it’s a good idea, feel free to edit, share, make your own, idc, fucc the zucc

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[–] Lunanoichi@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I like the idea of it, and frankly I don't even use Instagram or facebook myself, I used to post art before but META's stubborns about not letting me effectively decline AI training made me sick, so I use it for business reasons nowadays only, it's not like I like their content either, all short form content can go straight to hell

Though I really liked what you did here, I wish I could swap to signal forever, but being able to message my family is important sooo

[–] GMac@feddit.org 1 points 9 hours ago

I get why you have done it, but don't forget the option of stopping using something like instagram or facebook and just not replacing them.

I think replacing messaging services with signal is the exception here, as everyone needs a method of contacting others.Its not always best for a person to just do the same thing on another equivalent service though.

Sometimes the best alternative is to just stop doing the thing that is wasting all your time and attention; on any platform.

Like I said, I get why offering an alternative is necessary, just wish we could remind people that just not doing the thing at all was always an option... And that's an option that often doesn't require other people to change so much.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Until now I never saw something written in OpenDyslexic that was this unreadable

I know that you did it with good heart for accessibility but with this colors is really unreadable

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

i adjusted hue and saturation to increase contrast

don't use products that give money to zuckerberg

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

good idea! but you should post a link to fedibook because I found 2 other projects before the one you meant: https://fedibook.net/ and https://codeberg.org/sindum/fedibook

at first I found this: https://github.com/pwoolcoc/fedibook
a very old fork of a project that had some development since

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I appreciate you for fighting the good fight here, so please don’t take this as criticism:

This shit is colored like the Epstein files lmao

[–] pieland@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

i know i’m starting to get a bit edgy with the criticisms, so i just wanted to let you know that your comment keeps making me laugh and i do take it as a compliment in a way

[–] odd@scribe.disroot.org 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this is great OP, what you are doing is good. I think you'll enjoy the challenge and the benefits it will bring you.

To the rest of you commenters out here that are deriding OP: Positive changes in another person is something good and should be encouraged instead of criticised and picked apart.

[–] pieland@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

thank you, but it’s unironically not for me (unless you count the benefits from friends leaving meta)! i’ve never had a threads and i recommend wafrn because i genuinely love it. i do have an insta, but i rarely use it. never used whatsapp… have facebook but i don’t use messenger much; been using signal for awhile. i do use facebook… but again, not very much.

i wanted to do a challenge this month for people to switch their search engines away from google, but then i realized “no meta may” sounds better :) google can be another time…

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Why did you decide to write it in OpenDyslexic?

[–] pieland@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i used opendyslexic for accessibility (i am not an accessibility expert by any means, so i apologize for anything that’s off)

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're going for readability / accessibility, that bright orange background is probably not the way to go. And I can't imagine it was helping your migraine.

[–] pieland@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

https://venngage.com/tools/accessible-color-palette-generator is what I used for the color palette

i took the hex code of the meta logo and inverted it (anti-meta theme) for a hex code of #F9971E and generated a palette. this was one of the palettes. i went with a more monochrome palette for people who may have trouble distinguishing between colors.

as i do not have any relevant visual impairments myself, i cannot comment on the readability/accessibility.

saying “i don’t think this is accessible” is not helpful (you’re not the only person who has said this) as it does not tell me what is accessible.

i myself am severely disabled and unable to work and living in extreme poverty. i came up with this idea, shared it on social media, and asked if anyone would be willing to make a graphic. no one did.

if the cause matters to you, you always have the option to make your own graphic. i literally cried several times making this because i do not have the energy, the time, or a usable device to make this, or the money to purchase anything usable. i made it on my phone on the free version of Ibispaint, which is the equivalent of using ms paint with a trackpad, if not worse. i have shaky hands and painful joints.

as for my migraine, i can’t comment on that, as i have chronic migraines. we are advised to avoid noise and bright screens. if i do that i’m stuck listening to the convincing voices in my head screaming at me to kill myself while still being in physical pain. i prefer to continue to be in pain while deluding myself into volunteering time and energy i do not have trying to make this world a better place only to achieve nothing and to have ended up wasted time and getting shit on for it, while everyone else who does have the time, energy, and resources complains that no one ever does anything.

if i took spent hours on this (yes, this took hours because of how unusable the app is), other people can take a few minutes to explain to me how i can make this accessible, if it’s something they actually care about and aren’t just virtue-signaling. or! they can take a few minutes to make an accessible graphic themselves

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Okay, looking at that accessibility tool with the hex you provided (nice on the anti-Meta rationale), I think what makes it difficult is that white border around the text. It's adding a low contrast border to what would otherwise be high contrast black-on-orange.

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=FFFFFF&amp%3Bbcolor=F9971E

See what I mean?

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

I apologize if my comment came across as overly critical or unhelpful. All I meant by it is that to my eyes, the brightness of the orange with the white border around the text is a harsh combo. It would be more comfortable with a darker background that contasts more with the white.

See, you did more research than me, so maybe I'm totally wrong.

It's a good job, I 100% support the graphic and idea behind it and I learned about a couple new services too. Don't let any of us get you down. You're DOING something and you should feel good about that.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't have Instagram, deleted Facebook a long time back. But I can't get rid of WhatsApp. It is used by everyone in here.

[–] pieland@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

could encourage people to move to signal while keeping whatsapp maybe… until one day hopefully no one uses whatsapp anymore :)

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even businesses use WhatsApp for communication. 😐

[–] pieland@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i’ve heard that - but if signal becomes popular enough with individuals, i imagine businesses would eventually switch over to signal as well

[–] flint@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago

I signed up for a surfing course recently, where I had to enter my phone number as part of the contact info. I was pleasantly surprised that they sent info via Signal after I signed up.

[–] Keshara@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Never heard of Fedibook, nice I have something new to research, thanks!

I just recently moved on to Misskey/Sharkey to replace Bluesky and X for myself. Signal is the next one I need to look into a lot more as I still use FB Messenger and need to get away from it

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Friendica has existed for quite a while, created specifically to replace Facebook. Just another thing to check out.

[–] pieland@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

fedibook seems really new; i think it’s only been up for a few weeks? but it looks close to facebook, and apparently has an option to import facebook posts

i couldn’t find any screenshots of it, but i took some of my own after making a throwaway account

for me, it just feels closer to facebook design-wise than friendica and diaspora. every friendica instance that has a normie-friendly url seemed glitchy or just flat out took forever to load. before i stumbled upon fedibook, i was thinking about recommending spacehey or bliish (which are also interesting, but spacehey is invite-only right now; can’t remember what i didn’t like about bliish)

[–] Keshara@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Thanks for those!

Yeah seems to be much closer to that FB design than what I remember with Friendica. I tried it about a year ago and moved on from it pretty quickly, same experience that it just seemed buggy and slow.

I'll keep an eye on Fedibook, thanks again!

[–] pieland@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i don’t know if this one is really any better, but my friend suggested changing the layout to something more like this

edit: she suggested more changes, unfortunately what im using to make this is the mobile equivalent of ms paint with a trackpad, so i’m in hell :)

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I think the first one was better, it feels less crowded and weeks more distinct

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

For a Threads alternative that isn't directly aimed at furries, you can also try Lemmy or Piefed

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, PixelFed?

I thought that was an open-source good thing, with a Fediverse-counterpart of PixelFed.Social, no..?

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Pixelfed is indeed a good thing

[+] terabyterex@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

good for you, you are not the target audience. there are masses of people unlike you

[–] pieland@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it’s a social media challenge, not a personal one.

i’m happy for you, but the average person does find this challenging. if they didn’t, meta websites and apps wouldn’t be the some of the most visited websites/used apps in the world, and zuckerberg wouldn’t be rich.

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i think most people just don't care. we really need to spread the message. i think getting reddit users on piefed and lemmy is a good start. (like your username btw)

i want to spread the word so bad but i was banned from reddit. never knew why and i was very curious and surprised until i found out Paul McCartney was banned for posting pictures of his concert. so now i know it could have been anything.

favebook is another matter. i may have never had an account but i love tech history. mark and the gang built tools to scrape you other account back in the day an add the data to facebook. made it easy to switch. they also made it close to impossible to do the same to facebook. but it would require something like that to get people on to something else.

ok.. soap box rant tangent time.....

i am so pissed all the governments have been stepping up this age check anti vpn anti privacy push. in my magical completely unrealistic paradise world, we would have public service annpuncents about how to self host and be a part of the solution. i am so just disenchanted with society (not sure if thats the best term). i feel like it was only two years ago where i feel the bad stuff was selling our data to advertisers. sure the nsa kept illegally spying on us but the EFF would fight them in court.

now its so much worse :(

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

i think most people just don't care. we really need to spread the message.

this is how you spread the message. a challenge is a call to action, and it's popular in the sub 40 age range.

[–] pieland@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

i think most people just don’t care

i agree - so the question is, how do we make them care?

https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/44092/ideas-for-making-fetch-happen-a-mass-exodus-to-the-fediverse

https://piefed.social/c/fediverse/p/1897818/how-to-sucesfully-post-about-piefed-on-reddit

i’ve been trying - and seemingly failing - to make people care for awhile. but i’ll do my best to keep trying.

i was banned from reddit for months… maybe close to a year? it seems pretty easy to set off their ban hammer.

mark and the gang built tools to scrape you other account back in the day an add the data to facebook. made it easy to switch. they also made it close to impossible to do the same to facebook. but it would require something like that to get people on to something else.

i was thinking that - and apparently fedibook does allow you to import all your facebook posts :)

wafrn allows bluesky imports… i imagine with activitypub, hypothetically some stuff from threads could be imported, but i don’t know for sure.

pixelfed does allow you to import your instagram account

as for the government stuff… yeah. don’t like it.

like your username btw

thanks! when new sites i’m interested in pop up, i like to try to get a silly username related to the site name sometimes, although i think piefed might’ve been around for a year before my username? but i kept seeing it mentioned on reddit around the time i joined and i’d never heard of it before, so i assumed it was new (although it is still pretty new in the grand scheme of things, i think :))

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or at least OP could try posting where anyone who sees it wouldn't already be participating?

I'd be surprised if 0.1% of active users in here still use other mainstream social media.

Most people are here due to privacy concerns, even just to avoid monetization by billionaires. Using those sites/apps "sometimes" defeats the purpose.

Having any of the apps defeats the purpose, even if you don't use them. That's what OP should be pushing, for people to ensure the apps are deleted fully.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or at least OP could try posting where anyone who sees it wouldn't already be participating?

why, can't we spread the word to our friends? not like this is something only the OP should be doing

oh the so many negativity in this whole thread....

I'd be surprised if 0.1% of active users in here still use other mainstream social media.

I would be surprised if that's the correct ratio, or anywhere near it. a while ago people were self professing they are also using other platforms. and how would people read about local news? Certainly not from Lemmy, as things stand today.

Most people are here due to privacy concerns, even just to avoid monetization by billionaires

I doubt that. me, yes, but lots were coming who just had enough of reddit's general shitness. I have conversed with plenty people here who visibly did not care much about privacy.

Having any of the apps defeats the purpose, even if you don't use them. That's what OP should be pushing, for people to ensure the apps are deleted fully.

and cut themselves off of the other friends who did not move. sounds a convincing strategy!

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

why, can’t we spread the word to our friends?

Because it's not to "friends" it's to people who already agree...

You're not changing anyone minds.

It's like deciding to protest with a "meat is murder" sign, but you do it by holding up a sign inside of a convention center for vegans who think meat should be outlawed.

If your goal is to get people to agree with you're in the exact right spot, be ause no one who disagreed would be there to see your sign.

Does that make sense?

The only way that "protest" logically makes sense is it's purely performative and only done so that people who agree with you, acknowledge that they agree with you.

It accomplished absolutely nothing, and if you want to waste your own time go for it.

But if you can't handle that critique on how to accomplish a goal with someone who agrees with you, how the fuck are you going to get someone to agree with you?

It's more likely every time you try to convert someone, you just drive them further away

You don't understand any of that?

Take a second to reflect on how many people you've ever convinced that didn't already agree with you.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 hours ago

Because it's not to "friends" it's to people who already agree...

I was about OP sharing it with us, and we can share it with our offline friends.

thanks for the downvote. I could have stopped reading after the quote, and avoided all the beration. you must be a nice person in real life.