Mastodawn

An interesting problem:

I've been hearing from a lot of folks that "I'm trying to sign up for Mastodon and it's not letting me / it's confusing / it's a mess / it's broken"

When I inquire, these folks are always using a mobile app to sign up

My sense is ... many mobile apps are bad *in general*, and their signup is *particularly* broken

I tell these folks to sign up using a plain 'ol browser and it works

I'm now switching my "hey, sign up!" advice to insist on using a browser

@clive i for example only own a cellphone. So apps should be equipped for such a usecase.
As plan B mobile browser may work too

@Nika2022 Yep — a lot of folks are mobile only!

Since I’ve found the mobile apps unreliable myself, I go with Plan B: I have an iPhone 8, and I use mastodon via my chrome mobile browser

It’s actually shockingly good! They did a great job with making the main web site speedy, readable and responsive on mobile

@clive my issue is that a lot of browser sites aren't optimized for cellphone use. Loose-loose really

@Nika2022 Totally agree -- they're not a great experience, and really inconvenient

I think signing up via a mobile web browser is *most of the time* the better suggestion for arriving newbies ...

... but once signed up, a mobile app is far more convenient

I've heard good things about Metatext? Gonna give it a whirl

@clive Android user and I kinda like Tusky tbf. .