Mastodawn

Ali Alkhatib Feb 12, 2023

the framing of mastodon having attrition problems bafflingly misses what's interesting here

mastodon's new user retention rate being as high as it is, despite there being no UX team designing shady psychological tricks into the service/apps to keep you coming back, is a pretty big deal

like, let's be honest, there's very little about mastodon that's making us want to return here compulsively or addictively the way so many for-profit services implicitly aim for

it's pretty much just the people

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J. Steven York RESISTS

@ali The difference (and in this instance, the problem) with Mastodon is that you have to build your own positive experience here, and before that, you have to figure out HOW to build your own positive experience. I only started to really enjoy it when I started looking at that building process as an open-world game. I do which there was a better way to jump-start that user experience though. I suspect a lot of people never get as far as finding and signing up with an instance.