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@drq

> What a clown.

Wat?

This is just a normal looking video, isn't really wrong about anything, except probably adding bluesky to the feddiverse. Despite it federates with us, it does so via crappy """opt-in""" third-party bridge.

He doesn't even call the feddiverse "mastodon", which is common among many real low-educated tech journalists.

@lonelyowl How about evaluating any actual Fediverse platforms?

@drq @lonelyowl
And yes, it is a format on their channel.

For a video like this they did fine.

@skobkin Iunno. I still think that evaluating Fediverse by joining Threads or Bluesky is kinda like evaluating a pub by sitting in a corner facing a wall and ordering just diet coke and nothing else.

@lonelyowl

@drq @skobkin @lonelyowl Well, at least he listed some of the menu instead of just pushing something he chose - like it usually happens.

As I see it - this is not Fediverse propaganda but a quick introduction into the phenomenon. Whoever is interested will know what to look for. Whoever is not will just click next anyway.

@drq @lonelyowl
> kinda like evaluating a pub by sitting in a corner facing a wall and ordering just diet coke and nothing else

Well, you just basically described me in any pub :philosoraptor:

@drq @lonelyowl
Jokes aside, AFAIR, he listed FOSS solutions first and then after listing Meta and BlueSky said that it can be strange to leave big tech and go there.

So I really see no issue there. If he didn't mention Threads at all though, I'd agree that video isn't good.

@drq @skobkin

Would be an argument if he'd say anything dumb or wrong, which he didn't 🤷‍♀️

@drq @skobkin

Basically, a non-geek non-tech normie called your platform a good thing on his youtube channel for non-geek non-tech normies, and even did it with enough of respect to mention the software diversity of the network instead of just calling it a "mastodon".

Denouncing him for not digging deep enough is kind of a weird thing to do, knowing that the feddiverse is notoriously unpopular among non-geek and non-tech normies 🤔 🤔

@lonelyowl Okay, too harsh, I admit it. I still think that the guy, being a tech journalist, can do better than this.

@skobkin

@drq @skobkin

Yeah, probably.
Although i've started to think you'd be better off thinking of so-called "tech journalists" as more "journalists" and less "techies," that better reflects what they do and saves you from having too high expectations.

@lonelyowl Well, journalism still means thorough research.

@skobkin

@skobkin @drq @lonelyowl I wonder for whom they're making all these 2 minute low quality journalism absolutely no clickbait videos.

1k~2k views for half million channel is a joke

@drq

The video is too short, and it's not kind of a flaw that makes him a """clown""" anyway. At least not any more than you are, remembering your zealous defense of the "microblogging format".