Paris Marxi might have my criticisms of mastodon, but the founder of post is out here pretending “net worth” is a protected category to signal you can’t make fun of billionaires on his a16z-funded twitter alternative
Defiance!@parismarx Well then indeed Post is not for me! Simply knowing Post is funded by Andreessen is enough to ignore it entirely
Dani 🍁@Defiance @parismarx There’s a lot of Post promotion going on at birdsite. There’s also other new social media sites vying for customers. Pick me, pick me….
@DaniEhm I assume they're all walled gardens, no?
Andreas K
Exiled New Yorker- Connie@yacc143
I’ll admit I’m more familiar with different platforms than the average person my age but I simply cannot understand the resistance to the very idea of Mastodon being too complicated.
I think a lot of it is in the language. “Instances” instead of servers, which is the closest approximation in my experience I can relate to.
I also don’t think we can stress too much that there are apps that are less than stellar as far as user friendliness.
That’s all I see, as a totally new user.
Steve In Ashland@Pagan_Activist @yacc143 Mastodon is to Linux as Twitter is to iOS. The fact that people have to look around and figure out what to do for themselves is a big barrier to entry.
There is a need for a service like pre-Musk Twitter but so far Mastodon isn't it. That's fine, and it seems to work for a lot of the people on it, but it's too different from Twitter to make better/worse comparisons.
@steveinashland @yacc143
Do they?
*Have* to look around and figure out what to do for themselves?
There are many resources available to learn how to be part of the Mastodon community and the Fediverse.
I’m relying heavily on them as a brand new user, believe me.
I don’t know.
Are you/people even interested in changing the perception?
@Pagan_Activist @yacc143 Twitter was pretty self-explanatory: sign up one place, like and follow, reply and quote. A lot of the mechanisms are similar but it’s clear from the comments here and elsewhere that the intuitiveness is not as strong here.
The more a user has to figure out how to do something, even if there are a lot of resources outside of the service (that’s key), the harder it is to attract.
@steveinashland
Which is exactly why I asked if it had to be that way.
Is there a way to put together an easy to use and understand tutorial on the sign up page? Or a link to one, which would be less than ideal.
Is there any merit to that thought?
Which is exactly why I asked if it had to be that way.
Is there a way to put together an easy to use and understand tutorial on the sign up page? Or a link to one, which would be less than ideal.
Is there any merit to that thought?
Not exactly the way I remember my start with twitter. More like a crazy dash to learn all the crazy features of twitter, the acceptable behaviour pattern.
Not helped that twitter saß actively removing functionality at the time (eg 3rd party clients) so googled answers did not always made sense.