Kelly SovacoolNov 14, 2024
stephen ryner jr. 🦉
Why isn’t Mastodon more popular? Well trying to follow someone from the website is infuriating, for one thing.
Nov 14, 2024 at 2:36pmWeb
Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Nov 14, 2024

“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.

Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Nov 14, 2024
nope, moving on
Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Nov 14, 2024
Do not show a button if you cannot do the thing the button says it will do.
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 14, 2024
@nuthatch in many ways, it’s been intentionally designed to add friction to interactions in the name of preventing abuse. I am not sure I understand the issue with following from the web site, though.
Show threadstephen ryner jr. 🦉Nov 14, 2024
@jerry they post a link to follow them on Mastodon but it doesn’t work if you’re not also on their instance. Bluesky and Twitter are one-click follows in comparison 😔
Show threadJerry 🦙💝🦙Nov 14, 2024
@nuthatch ahh - yeah, that makes sense. I am not sure how to make that work better in this environment, but hopefully someone comes up with an idea
Show threadandrosNov 14, 2024
@nuthatch Do you have data to support your words?