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Mastodon Is the Good One (www.404media.co)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I think the UI/UX is really good now, and comparable to Twitter, and better then Threads/Bluesky. Unfortunately most don't get that far, because onboarding on the fedi is still a very big pain point and the very first thing people have to overcome. Also actually using the fedi, people linking other instances and whatnot really breaks the experience when you wonder why you're suddenly on an identical looking site but are signed out. I think decentralization is simply a requirement for freedom, but also it is a confusing concept for onboarding that we haven't quite solved yet. I'm optimistic that these things can improve though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

They've made huge improvements to onboarding over the past few months, it's as easy as any other app now:

Download Mastodon app
Make acccount

It's literally that easy now. Anything to do with Federation (like following other users) is also hidden to the background unless you go looking for it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The actual fedi experience for a non techy:

Search Mastodon app
Choose a Mastodon app, which one is the official, which one is the best, there's so many!
Instances? Why can't I just sign up with Mastodon, what's going on?
Okay, why are these all different rules, what does this mean, and why are they all different?
What am I actually signing up for? Who owns this instance, which I don't understand the concept of? Will it randomly shut down?
Who am I giving this personal data too?
Okay, how do I find content, why is my feed so boring?
Okay I clicked somebody's link and it takes me to a different website, why can't I like/reply/follow? Where am I?

At each one of these steps, there's a new learning curve. If it's not easy enough for your grandma, then it needs improvement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You should try the sign up process, you don't understand it. Explore tab shows you top posts on your instance to follow and no one posts links to masto comments because it doesn't look good.

The only actually confusing thing is people trying to quote tweet when it isn't possible, and maybe losing followers when there's server defed drama. Thankfully there hasn't been any recently.

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