Mastodon Is More Than A Twitter Replacement

There is a lot more to Mastodon than “New Twitter”, it’s actually the arrival of a whole new internet.
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[2] www.slashgear.com/1312839/twi...
[3] www.pewresearch.org/short-rea....
[4] dotesports.com/chess/news/elo...
[5] d3.harvard.edu/platform-digit...
[6] NJB Twitter, August 15 2022
[7] www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/te...
[8] techcrunch.com/2023/07/24/wha...
[9] www.makeuseof.com/how-to-migr...
[10] www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/te...
[11] activitypub.rocks/
[12] www.w3.org/Protocols/protocol...
[13] blueskyweb.xyz/blog/10-18-202...
[14] thenewstack.io/threads-adopti...
[15] github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
[16] urbanists.video/videos/overview
[17] joinmastodon.org/about

[@moho472]

I really love how you place your in-text citations in the closed captions, along with pasting them in the description. A lot of essayists on this platform tend to ignore that, so it's a breath of fresh air. Great video!

[@PaigeMTL]

Thanks, actually quite time consuming to do that part so glad it is useful

[@themariokartlick]

@@PaigeMTLseconding that! It’s really quite frustrating sometimes to cross reference a source from a KZbin video only for it to take 20+ minutes to even find. Love your work and am a patron, keep it up!

[@RMTransit]

Another Saunders video!

[@wacokidjim1973]

Actually, there's an open source electric car (I have no idea, but I wanted to increase the engagement)

[@PaigeMTL]

This video is from before old Jacko left the bluesky board. Sadly nothing seems to have chanced at Bluesky. They still haven't implement the Activity Pub standard. Still a for profit. So you can still find me on Masto: masto.canadiancivil.com/@paige BTW if you want to try it out Mastodon isn't highly algorithmic, it won't feed you stuff, you have to curate the experience intentionally following people and hashtags. It took me a few weeks to kind of "build up" an experience, actively following stuff that I liked. Checkout this page: fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

[@RockstarRacc00n]

Actually, if you create your own instance, you want to get as many people following you as possible, because followers are how your posts spread to other servers.

[@akhilkarandikar99]

NOT JUST BIKES SLANDER IS BASED

[@yukaira]

2 paige videos in a week?! youre spoiling us!

[@RMTransit]

Weekly uploads!

[@dmnddog7417]

I still won't use social media. Reading comments (and sometimes commenting) on YT videos is as far as I go. I don't need all that other noise in my life.

[@granttlcuk]

Nobody tell him.

[@keso.mp3]

@@granttlcuk lmao

[@GeralCross]

KZbin is a form of social media

[@GeralCross]

​@@granttlcukI have just told him :D

[@teddymacrae]

I really enjoy engaging with content. Probably my favorite past time

[@alexseguin5245]

I don't feel the urge to use a social media site like twitter, but if I did, I'd try Mastodon, looks cool. Thanks for this informative video!

[@cvx8279]

​@jamusbloombullied about what?

[@jonathanj.3695]

​​@@cvx8279 Look at the crap on his KZbin channel. Do you honestly think that this guy has more than 2 braincells that he rubs together on a daily basis?

[@FunCompany]

6:34 This is the most successful analogy I've found for explaining Mastodon to friends. Your username is literally formatted like an email address and you can email people even if you're on Gmail and they have an AOL address. The domain literally doesn't matter.

[@theonethreefour]

Your videos as always are truly a treat, getting two in a week even more so

[@wtfareperfectplaces]

#61200 is not 612,000 ;) hahaha love your vids, first error I have spotted and it was in a cutaway gag! really great stuff.

[@PaigeMTL]

Oh my god, you're right! I even have that prop stuck on my wall. I think I was processing the exclamation mark as another character.

[@AutumnBosco]

I love your content so much, I started watching based on my urbanism and transit interest, but everything you make is so good.

[@CaptainFoxer]

I think we should take the concept of ye olde 'Internet Forum' and apply the concept of Federalization to it.

[@StephenSmith304]

That's actually being done, there are a few forum software projects that are adding activitypub support so that the content in those forums aren't locked in but can be browsed and interacted with using an account on any other activitypub software. I think nodebb is one of them working on this.

[@SPAMMAN123456789]

well alight guess im heading to mastodon, I made a twitter account like 10 years ago and almost never used it so hey im game for learning something different and maybe better

[@BaiZhijie]

This video was perfect, it addressed so many questions I had.

[@RXP91]

Oh so that's what the server thing is. I never bothered trying to sign up as I was away from twitter for ages but missed some key info on covid booster timings from the UK health service so wanted to get back on something similar. It reminds me of the way usenet was setup

[@granttlcuk]

I feel like people place waaaay too many use-cases on social media. It's a place to chat. It's not about feeding you news and it's most certainly not where you should be getting critical health updates from.

[@martyfill9690]

Great work paige you are on a roll

[@eladalfassa]

I tried subscribing to your peertube account and found out it's configured so you must manually approve every new subscriber. Not sure if this is a mistake or an intentional choice 🤔

[@PaigeMTL]

I have no idea, guess I’ll have a look, people followed it before with no issue but maybe it’s some fediverse thing for the owner of my peertube instance. There’s a lot to learn when you’re talking about all these different social media replacements.

[@Amir-jn5mo]

Two big brain videos in one week!! Talk to us Paige what is going on. Thank you thou, I didn't know anything about Mastadon. I thought its the exercise equipment company making a social media app lel.

[@torenthe_expert8977]

Not just bikes makes good KZbin videos but on anything else he just turns people against him

[@TwinRiver100]

that's so odd to see. i've only seen his videos and don't see anything else from him.

[@heymike7037]

Paige makes the best videos.

[@nickolasridge8235]

G'day mate! Noticed it's been getting easier to suss out what you're saying lately. Must be givin' that francophone accent a good run. Keep at it, legend! Aussie greetings and cheers to more ripper conversations!

[@Jamielein]

Trying to follow you on Mastadon, but the Follow button doesn’t work. I’m fully on board with a decentralized net, but it has to work reliably.

[@PaigeMTL]

I'm not technical support, but there will be a reason that probably isn't mastodon's fault. My first guess: You tried to follow my old account (which you can't follow because I moved to my own server)

[@Jamielein]

@@PaigeMTL yup.. wrong account. I see @paige is the one I needed. Thx

[@planningpersonlaidbackdeep1273]

Hey i looked at peer tube. So i need to host a server first then get peertube? I write songs about peoole life stories. Im not a techie. Help!

[@PaigeMTL]

I’m not hot on peer tube as I am on mastodon BTW, I just upload on one instance and watch the videos in mastodon.

[@planningpersonlaidbackdeep1273]

@@PaigeMTL First thanks for responding. Youve made me love Montreal. 2nd ok can i hire you to translate that lol

[@planningpersonlaidbackdeep1273]

@@PaigeMTL I guess I need to spend a day exploring Mastadon. Lol

[@holedplot]

POM from Renault Luka EV. Mk1 & MkII Woodpecker Nice engagement.

[@vaaasm]

awesome video! the social media giants have left me so dissatisfied in the last few years. this video really motivated to continue migrating to these promising new platforms!

[@grd4629]

"F u...... No wait, Write that comment and create Engagement! ...Hmm, see? I'm being manipulated by the algorithm!" 😂 So happy you're back, Paige!

[@user-zj9tl5tr2o]

Great Mastodon explainer.

[@AtomicSource11]

Really surprised you don't now include your mastodon handle in your description!

[@AtomicSource11]

Oh wait, no you did, it's just not obvious from the link alone what it is

[@tinycha0s]

DOWN WITH THE COTTINGINNNNNNNNN

[@reality_bites7887]

that's not a model 3

[@philpaine3068]

Ford did not develop the assembly line. A Canadian company had already developed it, and was using it on a large scale. Ford simply appropriated the idea. His real innovation was shifting production to producing a cheaper cat that would reach a wider market. His usual tactic was to buy out anyone with an innovation --- and anyone who refused to sell faced his wrath and would be shut out of the market. The exception was P.L. Robertson, which developed the Robertson Fastener, far superior to anything else on the market. When Robertson refused to sell, Ford threatened blacklisting to any American company that bought Robertson's fastener ---- and fasteners were an essential element in millions of products. He then hired some people to design an inferior fastener (the Phillips) which he forced on every industry connected even remotely to Ford. To this day, Canadians use the superior Robertson, while Americans are still stuck with the Phillips.

[@keeblebrox]

What was that Canadian company? I haven't heard that about the assembly line before. Love a Robertson fastener though.

[@philpaine3068]

@@keeblebrox McLaughlin Carriage Company, based in Oshawa (just east of Toronto) developed the method for producing (horse) carriages. At one point they were producing one carriage every ten minutes. They had produced many innovations and had become a major force in that industry. In 1905 they started making automobiles. McLaughlin was taken over by General Motors in 1918 and merged into General Motors of Canada. They produced Buicks (originally McLaughlin-Buick), Chevrolets, Pontiacs and many other cars and trucks. From the very beginning, the Canadian and American industries were closely intertwined, with people, inventions, and managements moving back and forth across the border. Ontario's expertise in building bodies was integrated with Michigan's expertise in building engines (Detroit had started its industrialization with marine engines, Toronto with carriages and bicycles) to make the Great Lakes the heart of the auto industry. The lakes themselves made moving metals and other bulk goods easy in the region, and the already existing rail and canal networks did the rest. Not to mention the fact that Niagara Falls was the nucleus of electrification --- with Americans developing large scale generation and Canadians the technology of distribution --- making it possible to build large factories in any small city or town. Toronto was an electrified city by 1883, and by 1885 Ottawa became the first city in the world to light its streets electrically, followed quickly by other Canadian cities. We now think of the Great Lakes as the decaying "rust belt," forgetting how miraculous the region was for over a century. And apart from occasional tariff squabbles, the region on both sides of the lakes was socially and economically integrated from the 1880's, with goods and people moving easily back and forth. The Gordie Howe Bridge, nearing completion, may symbolically re-ignite that blazing fire when the the two sides finally join up above the Detroit River.

[@keeblebrox]

@@philpaine3068 That's really cool, I hadn't heard of McLaughlin before. A really interesting period of history.

[@ErikUden]

You're amazing

[@jerbot3000]

The woman worried about web standards 😂😂😂

[@abovewongart]

This video was 😂 funny. Love it

[@zaired]

Its funny you said no open source electric car and tesla open sourced their schematics for the old roadster like last week. But seriously, I like the idea of mastodon, by every time I try using it it just feels clunky and unfinished. I tried at least 5 times by now, but doesn't have quite the same polish. If they release a new version of the website that actually feels good to use, and has like or view counters, I'll take it more seriously. (But I do really like the Megalodon app on android, very clean)

[@granttlcuk]

Try #Sharkey. It's based on Misskey, another Fediverse micro-blogging platform. The UI/UX experience of #Sharkey is lightyears ahead of default Mastodon.

[@lestismyname]

akkoma only

[@granttlcuk]

#Sharkey

[@O_SimardCasanova]

The parts of this video about Bluesky didn’t age well, especially considering it was already known in August *2023* that Jack Dorsey had no involvement in the day-to-day operations at Bluesky. From the beginning, Bluesky has been run by Jay Graber, one of the very few women of power in the tech industry. But even in 2024, it’s apparently still a thing to attribute to extremely mediocre men such as Jack Dorsey the work of vastly more talented women such as Jay Graber.

[@granttlcuk]

Well, as wondrous as Jay Graber may be she's still out there re-inventing the perfectly acceptable WC3 wheel that Activitypub has had available since 2016. Imagine if all that effort had been put into the Fediverse....

[@O_SimardCasanova]

@@granttlcuk It’s irrelevant and uninteresting. Irrelevant, because it has literally nothing to do with the point I’m making about who led Bluesky. Uninteresting, because AT Protocol exists. Period. Discussing decisions made years ago, in a completely different world, is uninteresting.

[@joepowah]

too many videos. Please spread them out, so I don't have to wait 6 months between the next batch. 👉👈

[@jackfeldman3916]

Or ticket 61 thousand 200

[@EvanRoss-fv4ro]

Mastodon kinda liberal ahh

[@BlackMetalMagazine]

i recommend you Truth social bro, you can cry harder there

[@Token_Nerd]

I am 100% here for NJB slander

[@davidn2612]

Why, out of curiosity?

[@mariusfacktor3597]

I mean, I get why NJB can come off as salty. When you or I bash car dependency, there is always that one carbrain who makes some bs argument praising car dependency. Imagine the hordes of toxic carbrains that NJB needs to wade through every day. Every once in a while he's gonna mistake a goof for a carbrain and say something that looks cringe to us. Not a big deal imo.

[@Coccinelf]

@@mariusfacktor3597 But who is "us"

[@andrerenault]

I live for NJB shade

[@christopher480]

heres an interesting thought.....stay the f off social media then you will have an actual life of your own instead of bitching about everyone elses life.

[@Newt1969]

Mastodon: Twitter for people who love Statism. Which is the very ironic.

[@tristanridley1601]

New guy looking at getting a social media account. Tell me why not to use Mastodon? I'd rather not get invested again in something horrible, so... Convince me please.

[@txzk26]

​@@tristanridley1601There are no convincing reasons to not to. Go for it

[@txzk26]

> "Mastodon: Twitter for people who love statism" And where tf are you getting that? It's couldn't be less true. There are more anarchists and government critics in Mastodon than probably any other platforms. Stop spreading bullshit

[@txzk26]

@@YxYzYx And you couldn't have any less proofs, since you have literally none.

[@blackman7437]

Using Mastodon over Twitter is like eating choosing to eat rat-poison made by a worker-owned co-op vs rat poison made by a for-profit corporation. Like, you could just not eat rat poison.

[@PaigeMTL]

I mean words are fun, but no, it's not. Life is quite a lot more enjoyable on Mastodon at present. The people over there are self-selecting idealistic type. If it takes off and that changes, I'll stop using it.

[@Barnaclebeard]

If your fedi feed is rat poison, it's your own damn fault for making it that way. There is no corporation feeding you maliciously crafted social bombs to engineer your engagement. Perhaps you just don't like your friends?

[@alephnull8377]

Mastodon is more censored than twitter

[@cvx8279]

How

[@alephnull8377]

@@cvx8279 they ban people for nothing

[@granttlcuk]

Pure BS.

[@alephnull8377]

@@granttlcuk It’s not bs, try saying anything controversial and see what happens

[@granttlcuk]

I do and I get Likes.

[@Kevin_geekgineering]

social media is utter waste of time for those who don't know what to do with their useless life

[@ikesau]

yeah i agree we suck

[@MultigrainKevinOs]

thanks for reminding us notjustbikes exists. What the heck is wrong with that guy? He was such a good force for urbanism until he smelled too many of his own farts :( 2nd most disappointing character arc of 2023.

[@liamtahaney713]

Jason Slaughter is honestly the worst mouthpiece in the online urbanist world

[@natik2136]

Because he's brash in his opinions about North american urbanism or lack thereof, according to him, or what's up? I feel like I've missed something here. His videos are really good, and he's not actually wrong. I'm not on Twitter or mastodon. I seem to have missed at which point he became a divisive figure.

[@tristanridley1601]

​@@natik2136 It's just people addicted to being angry. He left North America and thinks that's the right choice for him and most of us. He's not backed down on that and not been very diplomatic about it, especially when attacked. As someone who'd have to be chased at gunpoint to leave Canada, I still can't see what the fuss is about. He's allowed to disagree on a major issue without being evil... Then again, Twitter does encourage the stupidest public arguments so he probably said some dumb things there. (I wouldn't know as I've never used the platform.)

[@christopherwollard5117]

Jack has nothing to do with bluesky and bluesky isn't a for proft company also bluesky will eventually be compatible with mastodon this is the whole point of the fediverse it doesn't matter what social platform you choose because everyone can communicate with each other

[@PaigeMTL]

You need to check your facts. He’s on the board of directors, a public benefit LLC is not a non-profit, they have not implemented Activity Pub or announced plans to.

[@EvoSchecter]

I like this dude's energy about internet freedom. Subscribed.