After I shared this great new Mastodon promotion video by @_elena, I am seeing quite many replies stating that her sharing it on YouTube is bad, because YouTube is evil.
YouTube has 2.7 billion monthly users (yes billions), so if we are to get more people to join Mastodon, that is the perfect place inform people.
Listen up Mastodonians, because this is important:
Right now we have a unique chance to rise up and hit back against Zuckerberg and Musk. Because italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and come join us in the fediverse.
Hit the fascists where it hurts — make this go viral by watching it and liking it on YouTube, then hit the share button and share it everywhere!
The Fediverse explained in 4 minutes: watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech ...
Le sigh. You are also falling into the trap of "negativity sells"? Ignore those voices and just add that it was originally distributed on PeerTube and we, the #Fediverse, focus on the message and not the tool. Elena knows about all of this. She published first on PeerTube, added Vimeo as alternative and now added YouTube too. And she is right. Audience beats fundamentalism. And PeerTube is growing and the better way. If using YouTube to promote the #Fediverse helps, wonderful!
That is so predictable. It's like wining that a vegetarian wears leather shoes. You're German, right? Then you may appreciate the dutch germanism that was coined not too long ago for such non-argument: Hypocrisieschwalbe (DE: die Heucheleischwalbe)
andahl@mastodon.social Ah, sorry. Yes, it does mean swallow, which in Dutch would be a "zwaluw". We do, however, use the German word "Schwalbe" for a soccer player fake-diving intended at fooling the referee. (I think you call this "film")
It is a whole cultural story including national traumata why we use the German word for that.
lin11c
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Jan Wildeboer 😷
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Schmaker likes this.
Dread Pirate John Scab🚫
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Jorge Candeias
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Exactly.
Some people have a really hard time understanding obvious things.
Gilles DePemig
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •Randahl Fink
in reply to Gilles DePemig • • •@DePemig I am Danish.
Does it litterally mean hypocrisy swallow? Like the bird?
Gilles DePemig
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •andahl@mastodon.social Ah, sorry. Yes, it does mean swallow, which in Dutch would be a "zwaluw". We do, however, use the German word "Schwalbe" for a soccer player fake-diving intended at fooling the referee. (I think you call this "film")
It is a whole cultural story including national traumata why we use the German word for that.
Marcus Reynolds
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •I am part of the rebel alliance.
(Was I really the first person to "like" the video on yt?)
The Animal and the Machine
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •In fact Elena is specifically addressing the non-fediverse to tell them about the fediverse. Where else would she put it but YouTube?
I’m sorry Elena that people are idiots!
I actually found it useful and I’m already here, so thank you.
Radical Anthropology
in reply to Randahl Fink • • •