Jon WorthJul 4, 2023

If you’re reading this toot there’s a pretty high chance you’ve asked yourself ethical questions about your social media use *and that’s why you’re here*

You’ve likewise probably got concerns about Meta and Threads

But the 90-odd % of your friends you left behind on Facebook, Insta etc. likely don’t have those concerns to the same extent as you

Mastodon has to win on user experience *as well as on ethics*. We can’t just berate the Meta users

Show threadNathanJul 4, 2023
@jon
I only got onto Mastodon through solid determination. Was hard to determine a 'good' server, signed up with the one I liked. It took three days for the confirmation email to come back to me. But I'd already re-tried the sign-up on various browsers several times and checked all possibilities of spam-blocking. Then I went through all the server vetting yet again and chose another home. *sigh*
Show threadNathan

@jon
What people should absolutely *not* be getting is a page that says "Hey, we're really popular at the moment. So you can't just join on our site. Go to one of these instead and pick from them."

It should be "go here, sign-up, pick server, done." Or, for the undecided, a "pick a server for me" option. Or "point me to your Twitter/Hive/etc, and we'll pick a server that should have a bunch of people you have something in common with."

There should be effort put into streamlining the process.

Jul 4, 2023 at 11:16amWeb