@kelspace @candle incidentally I think my idea of being able to follow arbitrary users (if with limited interaction) would help this significantly; that way it becomes a little more like a sensible email policy, where *you* decide which individuals on other instances you want to hang out with
bleh that might just make it harder to understand though? :(
@typhlosion @candle yeah I absolutely don't know how to balance the complexity that makes mastodon special with my own need for things to be simple enough to understand. I guess I'm just haunted by Google Plus (which had other problems, but) going 'sort your friends into circles!!' and me going 'yes, brilliant' and my friends going 'ugh what no u nerds that one extra step's a dealbreaker'
I can see both sides but personally I am only getting more overwhelmed, instead of more confident.
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