Why isn’t Mastodon more popular? Well trying to follow someone from the website is infuriating, for one thing.

“Well actually, you need to blah blah”

No, Mastodon should handle this. It’s table stakes. The minute you start to explain why something is complicated, you’ve lost, people will use the easy thing.

nope, moving on
Do not show a button if you cannot do the thing the button says it will do.