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 @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.
@steveinashland @Pagan_Activist
So yes, any social media site that is not written to be a Twitter replacement, will have a certain level of learning involved.
And your analogy Mastodon = Linux and Twitter = iOS is funny.
As a 30 years Linux user (my last daily driver Windows was Windows 95), okay almost 30 years, a co student installed SLS on my PC back then in the Christmas holidays 1992, so nearly a month is missing, Linux is trivial. I would have to google much for iOS basic usage.
@yacc143 @Pagan_Activist I’m no longer a direct *nix user—it’s largely hidden under layers of UI now—but having used it on and off since ‘81, I can state pretty confidently that if I sat a never-used-a-computer person down at a terminal connected to Linux, and a Mac, they’d be browsing the web or creating a formatted doc faster on the latter. Even Windows would be faster.
@steveinashland @Pagan_Activist Ah, you are comparing the Unix of a quarter century ago. Compare it a modern desktop environment like KDE or even Gnome, and you'll notice that it's quite grandparents ready.