Heather BuchelJul 17, 2023

Related to this (and considering the language we use to "explain" Mastodon) https://hachyderm.io/@hbuchel/110731743039964815

One issue that I'm not sure what the solution is: Most of my friends probably wouldn't have a server in mind to join. I can direct them to mastodon.social. But switching instances isn't straight forward. And once you acknowledge to them that instances have their own maintainers, that becomes a point of hesitation. (What if it goes away?)

Heather Buchel (@[email protected])

I feel like if you ever sat through a usability session (where a complete stranger tries to accomplish a task in your software, usually without someone telling them exactly how to do it) you probably wouldn't be surprised that so many people were turned off from Mastodon because it didn't immediately make sense to them.

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Show threadBen Bliss
@hbuchel One thing that confused me with the vanilla iOS app was not being able to see feeds for other specific communities. I know the vanilla app is meant to be simple, but the lack of visibility made me think at first that maybe I needed to be on hachyderm to be able to browse hachyderm posts etc. I agree that if it’s even slightly confusing to nerds, normies are going to be lost.
Jul 18, 2023 at 1:59amMona for iPhone