Apparently my Fedi promo video is giving error messages on YouTube (shocker).

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@aerion I think I set quite a few people off with the section in the film about Big Tech oligarchs. They sadly have a lot of fans, le sigh

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@Stomata thank you! 🙏

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@lazyb0y 🤷‍♀️ same here. I suppose he wanted to say that I and the Fediverse will be losers "if Big Tech buys us", with only Big Tech winning but he ended up writing the opposite. It's really hard to decipher

[kleisli@mastodon.social]

@_elena can anyone explain what his second sentence means?

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@_elena Works fine for me, chrome, with ublock, privacy badger, ghostery and goodtube running!

[bnlandor@mastodon.social]

@_elena What did the even mean by you being the "villain (cause) of all this"? Given that, I seriously doubt they're going to be able to comprehend your reply

[aerion@nerdculture.de]

@davidlohner
The one thing that I just fail to get, is that federation needs to be explained to people, when it's a concept that pretty much everyone is familiar with.

Have a (mobile) phone? You're federating. Have an email address? You're federating. Have an internet connection? That's federated.

People understand that you don't have to be on the same (mobile) phone network, with the same email provider, the same ISP, in order to communicate with others. Many daily services work, regardless of the provider you're with, where you can pick and choose and leave, without anything changing.

So why is it so insanely difficult to apply this concept to #XMPP messaging or anything on the #Fediverse?

It drives me crazy sometimes.

@_elena

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@aerion thank you for the SUPERB analogies 🙌 @davidlohner

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@kleisli I wish 😆

[jsalvador@mastodon.social]

@_elena don't do it xD

[aerion@nerdculture.de]

@_elena
🙌🏼
@davidlohner

[aerion@nerdculture.de]

@_elena
🫨

That's something that eludes me too, this utter blindness, this inability to think for oneself…

Sometimes it feels like The Matrix is real, and I took the red pill…

And what's with the worshipping of billionaire assholes?? 🤯

[haughtgard@tooter.social]

@_elena @dermoth
It also works for me. I'm using Firefox with ublock origin, privacy badger, Sponsorblock. No clue why you have error messages.

[transicorn@mastodon.social]

@_elena #YouTube has become more and more problematic throwing error messages for all sorts of reasons. Most things i watch are there given the sheer amount and variety of content vs. Peertube.

I use #FreeTube and at times have to change #VPN connections in order to watch videos, at times some will only open in a browser.

It's definitely a hot mess. I wish #Peertube were a viable alternative for more than just #foss stuff but alas, it's not even close for most of what people watch/want.

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@kleisli @_elena you're way ahead of me, i have no idea what he's on about in sentence *one*

[davidlohner@higher-edu.social]

@aerion @_elena jep; I did that email-comparison, too (in this talk, recorded in 2024, context: higher education institutions: https://video.notizlab.de/w/aaf8hYURi9JF3VLooSdtbn)

Would be crazy, if you could only send/receive emails from the same provider as you're using. Especially, since many HEI have their own email infrastructure.

[kentnavalesi@mstdn.social]

@aerion @_elena

I don't get it, either, especially with all the social manipulation that everyone knows the centralized platforms do. It's mind-boggling to me that most people are just fine with it or think that they can somehow "win" against the censors.

No, you can't. It isn't a battlefield that one side can theoretically conquer and dominate. They have the "delete" button, you don't. End of story. Stop with the denial and just switch already.

[pookiesorcery@mastodon.social]

@_elena are there Fedi Awards? you would get my vote. thanks for your relentless dedication. inspiring

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@pookiesorcery awww thank you! ❤️ doing all this for my child and her peers, wishing for a better internet when they're older

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@d1re_w0lf @_elena Daring billionaires to buy up all the fediverse servers or crush their ability to stay running by telling them they can't actually does come across as a bit villainous in a really subtle and ironic way that is actually brilliantly evil.