Christoffer OlsenNov 6, 2022
Lotta complaining about the unintuitiveness and learning curve of Mastodon from people who use Excel on a daily basis.
Show threadJeff BellNov 6, 2022
@ctolsen people get paid to use Excel
Show threadAshton

@jeffbell @ctolsen sure, but people regularly learn how to do incredibly complicated things for free if they think it’s fun. That’s basically all of Minecraft, along with god knows how many similar games.

A better question is basically “does the reward exceed the pain points”?

Nov 6, 2022 at 7:32amMastodon for iOS
Show threadJeff BellNov 6, 2022

@ashton_k @ctolsen True - but I don't think it does quickly enough for people who aren't techies. I'm interested in this stuff and want Mastodon to succeed on philosophical grounds. I was willing to learn it and am having fun here.

I think signing up is a lot of work if you just want to look at pictures of other people's cats, or read the news a bit. There are plenty of places to do that.

Show threadAshtonNov 7, 2022
@jeffbell @ctolsen oh yeah, I totally agree that the signup process is not ideal. I just think the interface between complexity and user adoption is more complicated than paid vs. not.