@estebanmoro also, I wonder how much the mastodon growth has been suppressed by people trying to join, and finding the instances they try to join closed.
I’ve seen a few people saying that they *tried* to join mastodon and couldn’t because it was closed — the subtleties of multiple instances and needing to select one and so on seems a little daunting at first. At least for those of us who’ve not had to think about in when singing up for FB or Twitter, etc.
@grenelliot as a former tech writer, I am *not* going to disagree.
<side eyes the engineers and programmers>
I often described my role as translating from geek to English.
Dude, no — no one other than maybe another engineer is going to just naturally imagine that to reboot the damned thing you press the two outermost buttons. It’s not obvious. You have to tell me that so I can explain it to them.
And the classified presentation docs from a real rocket scientist, where he returned the draft marked up in crayon.
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