Samuel PathApr 9, 2023

As I start with Mastodon, there's a weird feeling to be in a social network with almost no follower. It's like Twitter is a bar where many people know me, and entering a new bar where nobody sees me. It will take some time to build a social graph here.

Also what matters most is not the number of followers, but rather the quality of the interactions and of the discourse. My goal is that if Twitter shuts down (slowly or suddenly), I'll have a second online home and won't feel "homeless online".

Show threadClément CGApr 9, 2023
@sam I am a big fan of your instance name « tutut delire party ».
Show threadSamuel PathApr 10, 2023
@cl3mcg Then I think you can congratulate my friend @bnjbvr_en who invited me to his instance. I wouldn't have had the motivation to create a Mastodon account. He did everything for me, and I just had to enter a password :).
Show threadClément CG
@sam @bnjbvr_en Samuel, seriously, do you consider that creating a Mastodon account is an annoying/complicated process ?
It’s a genuine question, because I am always very surprised to hear this, as I don’t really understand what is actually annoying/complicated.
So, was this a perception from you, or do you still consider that it is a annoying/complicated thing. ✌️
Apr 11, 2023 at 8:58amWeb
Show threadSamuel PathApr 11, 2023

@cl3mcg @bnjbvr_en Actually, I don't know, since they created an account for me 5 years ago, so I never had to try myself. It's the general perception I see from people on Twitter who complain about how they feel they need to be tech-savvy to onboard on Mastodon. Or make unusual decisions like choosing an instance.

But true or not, I think this perception is pushing many people away from actually trying. I wonder what could be done to improve this perception.