Mastodawn

Dan Gillmor Jul 29, 2023

I hope that Mastodon folks who like to scold newcomers will realize how off-putting -- and damaging -- that behavior is.

Please be helpful, not scornful. Let's reduce the genuine risk of poisoning fediverse growth, and thereby giving social-media oligarchs indefinite control over online discourse.

Having said that, Mastodon/fediverse could/should do more to make users' experiences more gratifying.

Read this essential post from @kissane to understand more. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

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Mark Squires

@dangillmor @kissane "Making it easy to search for and find and follow people—those who haven’t opted out of being found—would also be tremendous help"

I didn't find it as hard to find my interest group because my whole server was founded as such (food and wine). Even so, I have other interests and it took awhile to onboard them. Two techniques: hashtag searches, pin the hashtag; follow results. Then, check out who those people follow. But this to me is a downside of no algorithms.