We started this account less than 6 months ago. It's going pretty well – thanks to you: 4.2k followers, lots of interactions, questions, and comments. A couple of weeks ago, the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU) asked us to write a guest article ab...

[dw_innovation@mastodon.social]

We started this account less than 6 months ago. It's going pretty well – thanks to you: 4.2k followers, lots of interactions, questions, and comments.

A couple of weeks ago, the European Broadcasting Union (#EBU) asked us to write a guest article about our experience with #Mastodon / the #Fediverse, explain the basics, and point out the advantages. :mastodon:

Challenge accepted.

So here's the finished post by @lxplm, hot off the #blog press. ️

https://www.ebu.ch/news/2024/03/public-broadcasters-of-europe-lets-all-join-mastodon

[tallship@public.mitra.social]

@dw_innovation @lxplm

And another journo gets it wrong again.

[db0@hachyderm.io]

@dw_innovation Since you're posting mostly articles, do consider (cross-)posting to #lemmy as well, as it's way more set for these sort of posts. You can even post in to lemmy from mastodon by @-ing the community you want.

[jakob@soc.schuerz.at]

@dw_innovation @lxplm

Nice to read "Fediverse"... but you still writing about Mastodon only.

A quick search in your article for
- peertube
- friendica
- pleroma
- calckey
- funkwhale
- pixelfed

gives NO result.

Please go back and try to find out, what the REAL advantage of the fediverse is.

I can help you a little bit:

For example #Peertube
Your own a Mastodon-Account. I own a Friendica- and a Peertube account (both on my own servers).
You can read my comment, which comes from friendica. You get my like, if i like your postings.
So, what the hell is peertube...
It is a very advanced Video-platform, fully federating in the fediverse and has similar features as youtube has.
A useraccount can have more than one channel (YT: one account = one channel).
Peertube has live-videos, live-chat, small video-cutting-features, you can update your videos, and you can automatically sync your YT-Channel.
Peertube has also Podcasting-Features for audio-only content.

And the best is:
You can follow my peertube-channel also from mastodon. You get every new video from my peertube-channel in your mastodon timeline.
If you like my videos, you can give a "star" and i receive it as "like" in Peertube.
You can easily share my peertube-videos with your mastodon-user to your followers... and your followers receive my peertube-video...

So you don't need a peertube-account just to consume, like, comment and share the videos you want.

You need only a peertube-account, if you want to share your videos via fediverse.

And if your own a YT-Channel... just mirror and keept it in sync with Peertube, and you have to only upload your videos on YT, and a short time later your fediverse-followers receive notifications for a new video... and can watch, like, share or comment it directly from mastodon, friendica, pleroma, calckey, akkoma... all the other micro/macro-blogging services from the fediverse... you've forgotten to mention in your article...

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@dw_innovation @lxplm I do not see this post in LinkedIn! I would like to repost it!

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@tallship @dw_innovation @lxplm could you ellaborate?

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@db0 @dw_innovation is there a @FediTips explaining this?

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@jakob @lxplm @dw_innovation considering the target is other public broadcasters and they experience have been only since October with Mastodon, I think it is a good approach to not overload others who are interested to join.

Although I am very tech savvy and knew about all of this you are explaining before joining mastodon, it took me a while to actually "feel it" and really understand it.

And that can only happen because community not someone else explaining it.

[jakob@soc.schuerz.at]

@mapache @lxplm @dw_innovation
No.

Since years journalists only talk about Mastodon... Mastodon and... surprise... Mastodon.

If people really would be overloaded, they could also not user facebook, twitter, tiktok, youtube, vimeo at the same time.

It's bullshit to save people by not reporting about the other services in fediverse...

And i'm really angry about this mastodon-centrism all over the whole journalist-bubble...

When you report about email... you do event not write about hotmail. Because it's the same if you use gmail, gmx or host your own fucking mailserver... it's email.
You can write about the advantages for different hosting-providers, their spam-fighting strategy, the free- or paid space, the web-frontend... but it's email.

If journalists write about email the same as they write about the fediverse they would only write about hotmail. hotmail and hotmail. Maybe the write... oh... it's soooooo complicated to use gmail or proton... don't use it... just use hotmail and you are save.

But for the fediverse... it's ok to do this bullshit.

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@jakob @lxplm @dw_innovation I am sorry you feel that angry, it definitely sucks feeling sour.

I get it, as a developer myself I have been very frustrated to implement things on the ActivityPub std just to realize it won't play nice with Mastodon. I have seen this movie before where the major player becomes the standard. But this should come from a standard discussion that generate enough mass for this type of accounts.

At the end, this post was about their experience, and that was Mastodon.

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@jakob @lxplm @dw_innovation

The other day a friend (@SmartmanApps) got excited when another seasoned Software Developer was getting into Pixelfed after some time in Mastodon, and sharing about Lemmy, PeerTube, etc. And I just went there to say to stop and take it one at the time, some people need just that, time, to experience each community as it deserves.

Although you can debate the article is not perfect when representing the Fediverse, I would say it is still net-positive.

[grant@grants.cafe]

@mapache @db0 @dw_innovation Lemmy works similar to guppe groups, if you are posting to them at least, by mentioning the group handle

Following a Lemmy community from Mastodon unfortunately will fill your feed with any comment posted to the group

I’d love to either find or make a project that cleans up following Lemmy communities on other fediverse platforms tho

[mapache@hachyderm.io]

@grant @db0 @dw_innovation I know! I subscribed to a memes thread, and altho the memes are nice, the comments were adding a lot of noise to my feed so I decided to unsubscribe.

[smartmanapps@dotnet.social]

@mapache @jakob @lxplm @dw_innovation
Thanks Maho, but in fact Nick's first question to me that started the whole thread was actually how to interact with Lemmy from Mastodon (finding his Pixelfed account came up along the way), and then he also made a comment about wanting to optimise his posting, which opened up the whole can of worms, so in fact I was only answering what he asked me