@markmeisner @FediTips There's a lot to get used to if going from Facebook to Mastodon. There are lots of missing features (compared to Facebook) and if you're on a server that has the default 500 characters limit, then bad luck!

If not, it could be more bearable, but:

• They would still have to cope with the fact that there is no threaded view in the comments of a post. Every comment is linear, so you don't know who replied who. Unless...
• People just tag each other in order to be notified by a response. This is mandatory. If you don't, the people before you won't be notified.
• They would still have to cope with the fact that longer posts are threaded and can be sometimes difficult to read through
• There's no way to create events and groups (and no way to attend these events).
• There's no granular control on privacy except for the 4 options that we know. If you want to make a post and only want to make it visible to a specific group of people, you're out of luck.

If these aspects are important for those people, consider also recommending Friendica (and possibly Diaspora too). The Fediverse is really lacking when it comes to Facebook alternatives. Nearly all of them seem to have a learning curve even bigger than Mastodon itself (which, fwiw, has been worked on in the past years). Friendica seems to be the most accessible though, among the ActivityPub platforms. There are two great apps for Android (Relatica and Raccoon - with the former also being worked on to support iOS too). Plus there are countless user created guides on how to use Friendica. I tried to gather them all in this megathread, so if you need to give a guide to someone, pick any of the ones I linked there. 😁

@markmeisner

That's really good, nice! 👏 Very interesting to emphasise how to make Mastodon's user experience more Facebook-like, that could help more new people come here 👍

One thing: some servers have more than 500 characters (I've listed a few good ones at https://fedi.garden/tag/larger-post-size but there are lots more.) ...but it's your call if this adds confusion or complexity.

Also you might want to copy paste the text into the description of the image? That will get you a lot more boosts on here 🙂