@feditips @paigesaunders Is there a TL;DR somewhere? Or better yet, a transcript? I can't play it in the background while I'm doing other things. (What do you mean, I shouldn't be doing three things at once?)

@feditips @paigesaunders well, agree but disagree if comes to hating apple because they wanted to use their own plug.
but I really really agree about fediverse.
if we can avoid billionaires, we should do it.

@feditips @paigesaunders I ultimately dig that this is done in a way that’s more tonally diverse (this kind of video sure appeals to a different crowd than most I’ve seen), but I wish the advice wasn’t to just sign up for mastodon.social. I feel like if that continues to get bigger they’re going to have the same kind of moderation and content problems that traditional, non-fedi socials have.

@feditips @paigesaunders

If someone does not like Mastodon, or finds it confusing to use, they probably are a good Christian.

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I subscribed to his channel from my mastodon account, which is a thing you can do with ActivityPub. You can't do that with X. I don't know about BlueSky or Threads, but I doubt it works there either.

https://urbanists.video/c/paige_saunders/videos

@feditips @paigesaunders Outstanding video! Well done. LOL'd several times. I might actually share this on that other site, something I haven't done in like a year.

@feditips @paigesaunders nice recommandation! I agree 100% with the message of the video. If I have to spend my time to create content on some social network, it's better be an open one and not the pocket of some crazy billionaire. Even if there are some rough edges, I can learn how to work around them.

@feditips @paigesaunders that's great! Thanks!

@feditips @paigesaunders I'm not sure I want a twitter replacement. Maybe the twitter as it was 10 years ago.

@feditips @paigesaunders
Quite a lot of information presented with snappy visuals and humor. Title image reminded me of a classic, "Bambi Meets Godzilla."

https://archive.org/details/bambi-meets-godzilla-1969-short

@feditips
The thing is, yes, Mastodon was a little confusing initially for me, but once I found out how to build the list of people I'm following, and -> #hashtags <- it wasn't all that hard to construct pleasant surroundings.

Everyone else's milage will vary...

@feditips @paigesaunders While I enjoyed watching this take - I think you are posting to people who already (mostly) understand Mastodon/Federation/Fediverse - This video really needs to be trending on places like twitter and youtube - which I think may help some of the "fear" of change people have. That being said, I'm boosting - so I will add to more people who use mastodon seeing it 🙂

@feditips @paigesaunders la vidéo n'est pas sous-titrés j’espère qu''il y aura un jour les sous-titres pour les personnes qui ont un besoin spécifique. Merci pour le partage.

@feditips @paigesaunders I got bored. Also, I’m still using twitter and the jabs at the twitter experience felt personal.

@feditips @paigesaunders I definitely know some people who need to see this, but sadly I think the language is a bit problematic in regards to actually getting them to do so.

This video was so, so very good.

Thank you for sharing @feditips and thank you @paigesaunders for taking the time and effort to create such a complete video.

@feditips @paigesaunders

"Have people totally lost their ability to weigh alternatives? People are just constantly walking off the edge of a cliff because the path has a puddle in it."

That line speaks to me. SO true.

@feditips @canadiancivil

Masto wouldn't scare off so many people, if the simpler online interface was the default, instead of the "advanced" one.

Wouldn't it make more sense to let a new user start with the twitter/bluesky-similar layout, and then let them switch to the column version later, if they want?

Most people I know who immediately abandoned Masto didn't have the time or patience to discover you could switch it off in preferences. They just took one look and bailed.

@feditips I'm afraid it's too strong for me. Can't share this with my friends. It's a shame as without the offensive content it would be excellent.
So I'm looking for a good one that I can share.

There's this, but any others?
https://tilvids.com/w/f747058d-3991-4046-a1c9-29c184daa0ff