@Gargron

Two weeks ago, the jokes about the Bird App dying were the property of the nerdy and the terminally online.

But now it seems like even many normies are feeling the winds of change. I've been using that app for a long time, and it's never felt like this.

I hope Mastodon can wise up and grab at this opportunity, it's too golden. Keep scaling, stay lean and fresh, get the word out, and most importantly: make user experience sleeker and easier for newbs and a more general userbase.

@haven4books @not2b if there's anything I've learned in my 4 days in the fetiverse, it's that "long time users," no matter how good their hearts might be, are terrible judges of what "improvements" will be good and accessible for noobs and normies, which ultimately is the most important path to actually turning this into a genuinely relevant, accessible, usable platform for more than just a few 100k.

I'm not shocked admin has blocked their suggestions.

@Mouthygurl @pburka I don't think there's much point in arguing about it tho, it's probably inevitable.

Either:
1.) Status quo remains the same, this protocol remains irrelevant, users cannot find what they need

2.) Landing community captures Twitter refugees with safe Twitter-style moderation and sign-up is easier. Preferred outcome.

3.) We all balkanize like OP suggested, millions and millions of us. My guess is this doesn't happen because it's not how web-2.0 familiar users operate.

@Mouthygurl @pburka If you're not up to date with the news, Twitter could literally be shutting down in a matter of weeks thanks to our old pal Elon self immolating. Nowhere to go back to.

Why be so prickly? Literally the point of Mastodon is that it has instances from which anybody can find community, you can do what you want. A main landing community that is well moderated would do a lot of good and would ease the transition for many newbies, especially Gen Z'ers.