Y E S J 🐸 H NJul 27, 2023

bluesky user complains about mastodon: it should not take rocket science just to join a social media.

bluesky: no media tabs, no videos, no gifs, no bookmarks, racism allowed, no report option categories, block and mute list publicly available in the user profile, mayo is a slur, no manual content warnings, moderation powered by AI, no polls, no pinned posts, no privacy setting, slow app.

mastodon: choose an instance 😩

Show threadGeorge Bals 
@yesjohn I understand that many people are not tech people, but how fucking hard can it be to pick the biggest instance and make an account and that’s it?
Jul 27, 2023 at 3:49pmMona for iPhone
Show threadEppy NWSJul 27, 2023
@balssh @yesjohn The conundrum I have seen is "the bigger an instance is, the worse it is run". Also, unless someone is EXTREMELY extroverted... it's going to be the "concert festival" experience where it will be easy to see your faves and the biggest names, but you won't really be interacting with them all that much, and otherwise it's too loud to talk to the people next to you (the local feed flies by so fast you aren't likely to see anything interesting). Then the likelyhood of them just going "meh" and walking away without, say, learning to follow hashtags is rather high, as we saw with the first and second wave of migrations.