What makes Mastodon different from Twitter

[@firalia]

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.

[@NoName-hj6cs]

Can you sound any more like a bot? I'm deducting your pay for this month

[@firalia]

@@NoName-hj6cs Eh? I'm just speaking my thoughts fam 😂

[@zb382]

this is the most positive review i've read about any form of social media ever

[@jdediego]

what bot do u use to follow tw accounts ??

[@davidortega3968]

pretty cool that you filmed this in stop motion:D

[@RealShinpin]

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

[@bk24708]

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.

[@interstelar7396]

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

[@DiThi]

"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.

[@duser]

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.

[@cobbhc]

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

[@sunknudsen]

Yes! Thanks for pitching in.

[@ShazamWow1]

It's Morphin' Time! MASTODON⚡🐘

[@yf4wx]

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

[@sunknudsen]

Hey Alex, pleasure! Pictures on monitor are from unsplash.com/. I just made collection public… see unsplash.com/collections/60428752/unsplashpi. That said, not all pictures from episodes are in collection. Fun fact… monitor (via Pi) displays latest pictures published to Unsplash so dozens to hundreds are displayed daily.

[@yf4wx]

@@sunknudsen thanks so much!

[@shaneofgames3825]

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

[@MyDogSteppedOnaBeee]

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

[@CalvinHenderson]

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!

[@spacet1me]

I need you in 4K 120fps.

[@sunknudsen]

Something happened while recording… typically 24fps looks good… sorry about that.

[@orionpacks]

like always quality content sun

[@sunknudsen]

Thanks for the push!

[@faubourglincoln]

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

[@thomasf.7940]

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

[@sunknudsen]

Sorry about that… something happened while recording… it isn’t you. Good eye!

[@saurabhchopra]

Yep yep, it’s not just you.

[@throwawayidiot6451]

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

[@mugenjie]

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

[@IraeCarvalho]

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.

[@Raya.T]

it's pretty much exclusively a platform for niche groups and tech savy people. in reality it just doesn't scale to the common person. Content creators won't want to stay around due to not having virality and full reach to everyone which will result in regular users not joining either. In theory a decentralized network for social media is great for certain things you like. But in reality for social media a centralized way is frankly the only way to make a platform big and for everyone.

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

[@shell11]

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.

[@christoffer7915]

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

[@sunknudsen]

Hey Christoffer, just published updated Firefox episode. That said, a comparison episode is on my mind.

[@christoffer7915]

@@sunknudsen Oh what an timing, thanks!

[@mrdread_]

Nice video 😻

[@everlastingos]

How about Feeds network?

[@krasky]

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.

[@krasky]

@martnnw _ Yes, I do. Only if the servers have a connection between each other you won't need to register on each server. That's the whole concept of "decentralization".

[@joshallen128]

@@krasky thats federation not decentralization. If the servers are not federated then you will have to create an account for each instance that isn't federated

[@jarro2778]

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

[@sunknudsen]

Interesting question… for sure if a non-marginal amount of you are there. I used to self-host my own PeerTube instance a while back but ended up shutting it down given my limited resources and time. sunknudsen.com/stories/why-i-decided-to-shutdown-my-peertube-instance

[@jarro2778]

@@sunknudsen I mean you don’t have to host your own instance just choose something that fits

[@ciceroalexandar6184]

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

[@joshallen128]

physical or virtual server

[@micpom8460]

Mastodon = No Censorship

[@alvynTC]

Just deleted twitter and beying on Mastodon :-)

[@kevomeister]

10fps

[@sunknudsen]

Horrible!

[@scruffy7443]

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

[@daddylafe7016]

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

[@jurascipakre9200]

I do not like Mastodon...

[@jarro2778]

Why?

[@jurascipakre9200]

@@jarro2778 You have a point. I do like Mastodon...

[@Caliberraged]

I disagree for no reason

[@jurascipakre9200]

Nevermind, gave it a second chance, still don't like it.

[@krasky]

@@jurascipakre9200 Agreed!

[@jakobfel2]

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.

[@jakespeakz]

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...

[@morxemplum]

Unfortunately, most of Twitter's revenue comes from ads. At most, Twitter's subscription is going to be a supplement of the revenue, not a replacement. And because of Elon's polarizing moves to the platform, he's driving away advertisers. Twitter is going to lose money hard, enough to where it may not be operational. Mastodon just seems like an evolution of Twitter and may replace Twitter if Twitter shuts down.

[@joshallen128]

twitter's centralization makes it popular because its the one stop shop for microblogging and easy to archive IMHO. Theres only one twitter, while there's at least 6000 mastodon instances. It costs money to host an instance, smaller yet more engaged, usually without ads or subscriptions. They are usually donation supported by the community

[@bartwaggoner2000]

The elephant in the room is the network effect - many sites have tried to replace Twitter. Twitter will have to become super unreliable for people to leave

[@AZ-qh3sg]

Mastodon is awesome :)

[@krasky]

Mastodon is horrible :(

[@AZ-qh3sg]

@@krasky why