https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCn8-eCdvzc
Dammit, man... Tech journalism in the name only, for it is neither.
What a clown.
> 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
In a two minute video format?
@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.
@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
@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.
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.
@lonelyowl Well, journalism still means thorough research.
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".