Due to popular demand, and the ever-increasing net to explain Mastodon to newbies as every instance is being bombarded with new users...

I've gone ahead and create a video tutorial that should help folks get to grips with all of this platform's particulars:

Intro to Mastodon 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22msAw2zwI

Special Thanks to:
@noelle @Gargron @MillennialDog @Rybark

Intro to Mastodon 101

Auf YouTube findest du großartige Videos und erstklassige Musik. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder mit der ganzen Welt teilen.

YouTube

I certainly won't ask for anyone to boost this, but I'd definitely appreciate any comments or criticisms as this was a larger undertaking than I thought it'd be!

Hopefully eight minutes isn't too long for a website tutorial!

ALSO, MY VOICE IS SUCH HELL. I AM SO SORRY TO SUBJECT YOU ALL TO IT.
@tahajin I liked it a lot, though  
@lucariwhoa (Exasperated Gay Black Noises) ;~;
@tahajin I like it. It's calm, and I was able to understand pretty well despite how I have a hard time making out sounds, in particular speech.
@Nomaxice Aw, jeez, thanks! I tried my damnedest to make sure I was enunciating everything else despite the uh...handful of speech impediments I operate through!

@tahajin I liked your voice! :)

The video was very informative and well produced!
Every now and then I felt the audio levels/mixing made it a bit difficult to follow, at least for me - but other than that it was absolutely excellent!

@DareLooks Not surprised, this is my first time using my voice in a video since...what, like early high school - so about eight years or so? My dialogue mixing is ROUGH.

But I'm glad most of the important stuff came through!