Comment by Zachariah@lemmy.world on Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon

Context: Technology Connections is a YouTuber https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

This is his account on Mastodon https://mas.to/@TechConnectify

So, unfortunately when I go to Mastodon these days it’s a bit of a ghost town. And I say unfortunately with sincerity - there are some things I really liked about the ethos behind it. However, the reason I’m posting this here is that I couldn’t put it there without getting instant shit. 🧵…

im confused. is it a ghost town, or is it full of people giving him instant ‘shit’?

I think he is saying that of the total interactions he gets he would expect a large amount of hostility to his opinion on Mastodon, and it is also a small population which is available to interact with on platform. Consistent, just talking about the experience and an objective measure. In my opinion Mastodon will be helped by Bluesky adding a paid membership. The worse it is the better for Mastodon, and honestly if people have already started moving out from Twitter to Bluesky they are not locked in yet so moving out again is easier, they already dropped Twitter but Bluesky is not solidified yet.

We just need to get accounts as fediverse universal and instance agnostic and thats 99% of the problems solved

Could be wrong, but possibly he’s talking about this about “getting instant shit”:

https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/112995177480955078

(look also at the reply)

I’ve gotten an extremely similar comment on a couple posts I’ve made here on lemmy, in a video community no less.

Personally I just said something’s like “welp, sorry that’s not your preferred format.” and then just move on.

With how infrequent posts like that are, they don’t effect me at all, but It’d probably suck more if I was consistently getting negative comments like that,

My gut instinct is to think, this is just a dumb person being mean on the Internet.

But upon reflection, no one would say this on yt, twitter, Facebook, etc. because people are sharing actual bullshit on there. You would be dunked on so hard for complaining about yt videos or just ignored. There would be no point in complaining.

On one hand it’s nice that Mastodon doesn’t have ads, and people usually don’t share bullshit, but does that logically result in attracting users who shit on someone for sharing a YouTube video, because sometimes other videos on YouTube are bad?

I like that Mastodon has actual conversations but I don’t like this guy being dumb.

On one hand it’s nice that Mastodon doesn’t have ads, and people usually don’t share bullshit, but does that logically result in attracting users who shit on someone for sharing a YouTube video, because sometimes other videos on YouTube are bad?

I have lost count the amount of times I’ve shared a YT video on Lemmy, and people bitch about the fact that they have to spend 15-60 minutes watching it, or immediately ask for some TL;DR about it. Like, I’m curating content for you, sharing a video I liked among the other videos that you probably didn’t like, and people just want to universally shit on the format because of that one bad experience from two years ago when they dared to go to the web site for 5 minutes.

People love to shit on TikTok, but secretly, that’s the length of content a majority of this audience wants, and it’s dumb. If you don’t want to devolve into a TikToker, then watch longer videos and don’t bitch when somebody asks you to watch a video for 10 minutes. If you don’t like it after a few minutes in, fine, go watch something else.

Could be wrong, or just more domain-specific, bu my experience is people don’t complain that the video is 15-30 minutes long, is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format. Basically “this could have been an e-mail”.

Not to mention that way people avoid having to go to YT which is yet another cesspit community-wise.

You are right that people have shorter attention spans ofc, but then again when it comes to tackling it it’s largely an issue of medium: in the world of coding you can convey easily copyable or testable instructions in text format maybe with attachments, that can be verified in up to 60 seconds… or you could post a 30 minutes long video plus ads. Why would anyone expect the Fediverse, with the kind of people who are naturally attracted to it, to prefer the latter, no idea.

is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format. Basically “this could have been an e-mail”.

Or it’s a lot of information to digest and an “e-mail” or blog article would have been too long and visually-unappealing to properly convey the information. Videos have words, pictures, and sounds. Even if it was in article form, they just want it so that they can skim parts of it, and pretend to read it, while not digesting a damn thing. Why bother with actually reading anything when you can shove it in an AI summarizer and get the best possible summary that takes 5 seconds to read?

Not to mention that way people avoid having to go to YT which is yet another cesspit community-wise.

It entirely depends on the channels you watch. All of the comments I read on the channels I follow are fine. I don’t know what other people are having a problem with, but maybe they shouldn’t be following Mr. Beast or Logan Paul bullshit.

Could be wrong, or just more domain-specific, bu my experience is people don’t complain that the video is 15-30 minutes long, is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format.

Which is kind of interesting, considering it wasn’t that long ago that people asked for tutorials and other information in the shape of videos because they couldn’t be bothered to read shit.

“You are right that people have shorter attention spans ofc”

Why do we all endlessly state this narrative as if it was a fact.

Like I get the feeling but there is very little good evidence for it.

Scientists don’t even largely consider attention span a useful concept to understand the human brain.

“Ghost town” = Not driven to oversharing by algorithms.

“getting shit” = nobody wanting to listen to a youtuber’s outrage bait.

It must be confusing to log into the fediverse straight off of Youtube, though. “Why aren’t people compulsively clicking and subscribing to everything? How am I not being recommended radicalising posts by conspiracy theorists and terror organisations within five clicks?”

“Honey, this is Mastodon”

“Ah, much better!”

This comment right here. This is what he’s talking about.

Good, mission accomplished 👍

You don’t have to be a dick, you know. There are other ways to live.

The problem is the lack of auto-hiding of comments like this. Normally, on a Reddit thread, this would be buried and shunted to a “click here to read the stupid ass bullshit that one idiot wrote and got downvoted into literal Hell” link.

Please, give me that in Lemmy, instead of having to always look at the abysmal score at every comment.

Oh, do educate me on my life choices based on an unrelated online comment, internet stranger 🙄

FWIW, I’m living my best life, rejecting influencers and enjoying a low- to no-drama fediverse. Anybody feeling bad for a Youtuber failing to peddle their bullshit to Mastodon can kindly get in the sea.

Have a nice day

I geniunely can’t understand what you’re trying to say

Perhaps the other reply was right–this comment is what he’s talking about

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