Fediverse is basically what we all wanted the internet to become back in 1997

I'm pretty sure mastadon will turn into just a massive echo chamber.

For me I am trying to shrink my social media presence and get back to living life in the real world. More time with friends and family than staring at a screen. I’ll probably stay on twitter till they block Tweetbot.

pretty cool that you filmed this in stop motion:D

"The security is questionable" The security is fine with the current threat model. When you send a DM you're warned that those messages are not encrypted and that you shouldn't share any sensitive information. Also anyone can create an instance but not anyone can create a public one (i.e. that other users can trust) without enough know-how of how to make a mail server for example. And just in case you don't know, there's a group of cryptographers making a E2EE specification and implementation for Mastodon. We'll hopefully have it working later this year.

I think the word you were looking for there Sun was "Public Square"

I need you in 4K 120fps.

Hey Sun, I tried with multiple browsers but it seems to be lower fps, or is it me?

I'm a Mastodon & Misskey Fediverse user, and have been for around a year now. I absolutely love it! I find it's so much less addictive without the algorithms regular social media has, and I can still follow my favourite Twitter accounts via bots. It feels more private, in the sense that it's harder for people to find you if their instance hasn't already federated with yours. Some instances even disable searching people's profiles, which makes me feel much more comfortable that people won't use stupid things past me has said against me. A lot of instances have a lovely sense of community too. I'm at the very least acquaintances with most people on my timeline, and have even made a friend through simply liking the same stuff! When there's no algorithms, and it's harder to find people, I find that it's much easier to actually make connections, and my time feels more well spent.

Hello. Do you have a video that discusses your SuperBacked? I was curious about it and your website did not provide me with much detail. Joining a waitlist is fine if I know what I am waiting for. Thanks!

Hmm thanks for the video, I’ll check it out.

Hi, please can you tell me where I can get a fake window like yours?

thanks for your videos. what are cool wallpapers on the monitor behind you? Do you have special collection of wallpapers?

Nice video 😻

It's Morphin' Time! MASTODON⚡🐘

like always quality content sun

Can you make a video about 2FA risk models? I suppose not all people should prefer 2FA authenticator apps over 2FA sms, especially if they use auth app in the same device where they have the password manager. I know you already did videos about 2FA, if you will decide to talk about 2FA again it could be interesting, thanks, your channel is very interesting.

I don't think adoption is the biggest challenge. Spam/scam/bots will be harder to defeat. Right now Mastodon is not a target for massive spam, but once it is, it will be a huge problem for the open source community and server providers. Email spam has been unsolved for decades and a huge reason why centralized communication tools partially replaced it.

Locals I heard was really good too. the content creators can control what gets posted and you can say things more freely as long as the content creator has no problem with it. Check it out I believe you have to pay for it to follow a creator's platform, but it's less smaller community group without all those damn bots and rhetoric like Twitter. A relative of mine explained it to me. He said people are leaving patreon for locals too.Thanks Sun

Wished this was the video i watched when i was trying to get into mastodon. Everyone said that "its a decentralized twitter" but the term 'decentralized governance" fits so much better.

End to end encryption can be done it would just require a bit more effort from users with extra software

How about Feeds network?

It's nice to hear your native tongue once in a while =)

I am glad that you're back! I missed your content! About Mastodon: I've tried to use it several times now, but never really warmed up to it. The decentralized servers are great in theory, but super inconvenient in practice. If I have to register on a different server for every user I want to follow, the whole use of this "social network" makes no sense.

Would you (and superbacked) possibly join mastodon? I know it’s possible to “sync” a Twitter account to mastodon, would be nice

Hey Sun! Can you do a video about search engines and browsers?

Can someone who is not a tech guy and not an English speaker explain what instance means here?.

If you are on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, usually is worth changing.

10fps

Mastodon = No Censorship

Just deleted twitter and beying on Mastodon :-)

The difference, Mastodon is run by fruity furries..... lol

I can't be the only one that thought he was going to talk about the band 💀

I do not like Mastodon...

Mastodon is awesome :)

Sorry sun, twitter is better service in general. Subscription model is the way to go to.stop or decrease surveillance tech. Twitter can be the role model to stop the ad incentivised attention based economy app ecosystems...

I would absolutely love to try Mastodon but I don't want to be associated with the virtue signaling children who are throwing a tantrum over Elon buying Twitter. Maybe in a year or two, but yeah, for now I'm going to stick with Twitter, MeWe and Gab (a fork of Mastodon itself) for my social media needs. Matrix, too, if you consider that to be social media.. but I consider it to be more of a modern chatroom.