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Mastodon is great, but its nature makes it inaccessible to those who would benefit most from open discourse and conversation: the layman. It's got a high barrie
by lyra_comms 9y ago
Mastodon is great, but its nature makes it inaccessible to those who would benefit most from open discourse and conversation: the layman. It's got a high barrier because it's aimed at the more technologically literate.
- dublinben 9y agoIt's no harder to register an account on any public Mastodon instance than it is to register for Facebook. In fact, it is arguably easier, since Facebook often requires phone number verification nowadays.
- lyra_comms 9y agoThat's true, but the distributed, decentralised nature is something that the layman is often not interested in understanding, and so can turn people off the network. Neither does it have a cuddly name!