A handful of disgruntled tweeters tried Post and Mastodon, but the first is a graveyard, and the second is an obstacle course for non-techie users.

What’s post?

I don’t even understand what’s difficult about mastodon or lemmy. Just pick a server forget about it and enjoy the better communities

what’s difficult about mastodon

picking a server

not being spoonfed by the algorithm and having to actually think of who and what do you want to see/follow.

So, I don’t use Mastodon for the same reason I never used Twitter (I don’t need a microblog and I’d rather read other people’s regular-sized blogs), but point 2 sounds like a problem. How do you decide who to follow, when you’re working from a blank slate? I presume you need to see several of someone’s posts before you can know if you’d like to follow them, so if Mastodon doesn’t show you any posts by default how do you get started?