@HilliTech I think most onboarding issues for most people would be solved with a slick client (Ivory for example), and a defaut instance you don’t need to think about other than click “yes”. Maybe a one click way to import your lists and followers from Twitter… But a lot of people there won’t be here - that’s lock in too.

I found the instance selection initially very offputting, it’s a decision you have to make that you don’t know the implications of, with an overwhelming range of options.

@kkomaitis @mmasnick I think at some point telepresence conferencing, shopping and socialising will be useful, but we’re a long way from that now, and who knows what it’ll look like.

Keep pressing and the only definition is “Read Snowcrash.” But I think that’s likely to be like someone in 1970 saying read 2001 if you want to know what space travel will look like in 2001.

This is very good. And seems appropriate as a first mastodon post.

And I havent figured out how to quote, so here’s the link.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/how-the-friedman-doctrine-leads-to-the-enshittification-of-all-things/