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@thelinuxEXP Great video! I just feel the whole thing has been very poorly communicated. What @ryanleesipes is doing here Mozilla should have been doing from the very beginning. We're a fairly big Firefox redistributor and there has been no communication towards us. And it does make people nervous here.

BTW is there any particular reason why the video is only 720p on PeerTube and 1080p on YouTube?

@sesivany @thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes It has also been very poorly communicated by the wider community by making the usual not so useful noise in aiding to understand what's actually happening.

@auser @thelinuxEXP @ryanleesipes IMHO it is only amplification of the original poor communication. I don't mean to critise, it's just really hard to get it right sometimes. Speaking from experience. We at Red Hat have had our share of poor public communication.

@sesivany @auser @ryanleesipes I think we can’t dismiss the entire thing as just miscommunication, and outrage amplifying that. There ARE valid causes for concern behind the stuff that’s has been explained :)

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes Not dismissing the entire thing as miscommunication but miscommunication is a very big problem in social media, specially now, and the FOSS community is not exempt of that. Everybody needs to be more aware of their behavior and try to understand and be empathetic on how things are on the perceived "opposite side" and respond accordingly.

@auser @sesivany @ryanleesipes I’d counter that by: it’s not necessarily the goal to be productive, or the role of any commentator to be productive.

Ranting and criticizing without offering solutions is 100% ok, and fine. Just because we don’t have a solution, or we don’t show understanding for the 100th miscommunication doesn’t mean what we’re ranting about isn’t valid ;)

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes I don't think ranting is criticizing, or how it should be understood. Criticizing offers arguments and explanations like you did in your video. Ranting does not offer these.

BTW, I'm not directly refringir to you Nick (i like your channel a lot), but there's a thing that content creators could address more explicitly and that probably you are already aware of: How negative communications are sometimes at least part of the fuel of a successful media channel.

@auser @sesivany @ryanleesipes ah well, I guess it depends on what we call « ranting » (most people who listen to my ramblings call my stuff the weekly rant ) !

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes I'm sure they mean that kindly

@thelinuxEXP @sesivany @ryanleesipes If it's useful as a reference, here's an example of cynical take on what happened: https://youtu.be/4litc5DxoHQ?feature=shared

These people are actually profiting form situations like these.