austI really wish Mastodon didn't have multiple networks and instances. Just confusing for 99.5% of ppl. Maybe that's a feature not a bug, but I doubt it. Fragmentation is rarely a good thing in a social network.
Les Orchard@aust Not to be too snarky, but it was also confusing when folks moved from CompuServe & Prodigy & AOL to the Internet & the WWW. Folks figured it out, because the benefits were worth it. Putting all the eggs in one basket is the driver for a lot of problems right now. Whether this federation helps things needs to prove itself out, but I'm hopeful
@lmorchard 99% of people still don't understand the details because they've been abstracted away. People don't understand.
@aust And that could happen here. We got better UX, search engines, etc because it was worth doing. Of course then the distributed web collapsed into silos, but it could be a cyclical thing and we distribute again