@Defiance @DaniEhm With extra high walls.

But as very useless pretend journalists have pointed out, the walls are very prettily painted.

Much nicer than the chaos at Mastodon with its look to the horizon, that can cause some people severe psychological problems.

@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.

@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 @Pagan_Activist You'll find it funny, but what you are complaining about is, that “Mastodon is different”.

Some of that because stuff is called/labeled differently. Some is because of different social norms, community standards (which has consequences for features). And naturally the federated aspected (you know how the Internet is supposed to work, “not in centralized silos”). And I doubt that Eugen claimed that Mastodon is supposed to replace #birdsite.

@yacc143
Oh, I am not complaining in the least, nor do I want to be in an environment like Twitter.
I’m tired of my communities getting torn apart because a corporation decided to nuke it.

I was only going over the same well trod ground, thinking out loud.