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 :)

  • Parptarf@lemm.ee
    56·
    21 hours ago

    This might actually be kind of huge. Doesn’t he have a pretty big outreach?

        • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
          23·
          19 hours ago

          Its like with normal advertisement. If you heard the name of it before, especially from a trustworthy source, then it instantly becomes more trustworthy to you. When people seriously start looking for alternatives, they will think back or try to find that episode again.

        • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
          21·
          20 hours ago

          Yeah the question is where does he personally have his social media? X, facebook, instagram by the looks of it?

          I don’t see him on mastodon

          • Parptarf@lemm.ee
            20·
            19 hours ago

            Hmm. If people like himself were to start using Mastodon and Pixelfed, there would be a bigger increase of users for sure.