Ars TechnicaMastodon fixes “confusing” sign-up process to attract users fleeing Twitter
Mastodon forms a plan to make decentralized social networks go mainstream.
Stephen Cerruti@arstechnica I, for one, am confused about your use of quotation marks in this headline. I read it to mean that there is debate the sign up process is confusing.
I myself would have written, 'Mastodon "fixes" confusing sign-up process...' acknowledging the confusion of the process and calling into question the chosen fix.
The idea that people who would abandon sign-up over the confusion will someday decide to try to switch to an alternate instance is flawed.
Dan@scerruti
I think in this case it's literal quotes, not ironic quotes. The process was called confusing.
@arstechnica
I think in this case it's literal quotes, not ironic quotes. The process was called confusing.
@arstechnica
@painkiller @arstechnica Yeah, that's what @shiri said, but the article gives evidence that it is confusing so it is a misleading headline (regardless of whether it is intentional or just bad editing).
Shiri Bailem@scerruti @arstechnica @painkiller As someone who found it not-at-all confusing, I'm behind the quotes. Especially since they're probably get farm or hassle from people for *not* quoting it (ie. people thinking that Ars is slandering Mastodon)