Nora Reed"everyone who can't figure out how to use mastodon is stupid" your website does not have a functioning system for following people on other servers
like i am sorry but i saw a survey going around on here where like 80% of the respondents used linux. no one on this website has any idea how normal users of technology work
"why do journalists keep telling people our website is hard to use" because there's a million weird little idiosyncratic things like "replies aren't all visible" and "you have to copy paste stuff to follow people on another instance" and the site culture is to gaslight anyone who points this out
Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻@NoraReed you ... dont have to copy paste stuff to follow people on another instance though what are you talking abou
@vegetablegremlin you do on the web interface
@NoraReed no you dont. i just followd and unfollowed you on the web interface right now by clicking the big button.
@vegetablegremlin i just tested it idk what to tell you
@NoraReed what are you copying and pasting coz im just clicking your name and the profile comes up with the big button
@NoraReed you dont even need the full @name@instance to find someone on other instances either
@vegetablegremlin is that second one someone plagiarizing my tweets without permission
@NoraReed thats a matter of a user verification system, but demonstrates finding users to follow isnt limited to the instance youre on
Ealasaid@vegetablegremlin @NoraReed fwiw I just tried to follow Nora and am being asked to copy and paste a link to do so. This is on the web interface, URL https://mastodon.social/@norareed