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If I can’t choose wrong then why am I forced to choose at all? The user experience doesn’t add up.
by DavidSJ 4y ago
If I can’t choose wrong then why am I forced to choose at all? The user experience doesn’t add up.
- xaduha 4y agoWho should decide it for you then? Did someone mention blockchain already? But seriously though, if you start to make it more distributed than it already is it will look even less like Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(protocol)
- phire 4y agoMost users don't care how distributed it is, or what it's architecture looks like. They just want to sign up, and get an out-of-the box experience more or less like twitter.
- xaduha 4y agoIf they don't care, then they should stay on Twitter. There isn't a better option right now than Mastodon/ActivityPub.
- lrvick 4y agoIf Mastodon was fully centralized like Twitter and offered that experience, it would need an immense source of funding, and need ads, and shareholders, and would be losing money rapidly until some billionare bought it out... like Twitter. Mastodon is built so that there is no single point of failure, but that means users have no single point of signup. It is like email, or matrix. Host your own on your own domain for a few dollars a month or join a friendly server paying the bill for you. It is really not that hard, but people are just not used to having choices on the internet anymore. At some point someone you know picked Twitter and you did too. Maybe find some friends or public figures you like on Mastodon and see what server they are on.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoisn't the whole point of federated service that I don't have to be on the same server as people I'm following?
- lrvick 4y agoOf course. I only suggest that for people that cannot decide what server to choose.
- arjvik 4y agoIf there's no wrong answer between Gmail and Outlook, why must you choose one of them?
- xaduha 4y agoYou have a good analogy attempt there, but you didn't quite nail it I think, because Outlook is also an email client. It's more like if someone asked why they need to choose between someone@gmail.com address or someone@outlook.com, but in reality email would work just fine regardless. EDIT: fixed
- arjvik 4y agoYup, you're right. I guess I was specifically referring to outlook.com, Microsoft's hosted email solution for consumers.
- tedunangst 4y agoExcept for all the people with outlook.com addresses.
- afiori 4y agoThe "not choosing" option is to run your own instance. You are forced to chose because there is not a central blessed server that acts as a main hub.
- lrvick 4y agoYou chose an area code for your phone number. Often people choose area codes from a home state as a bit of nostalgia or affinity, but in the end you can use any number to talk to any number, so it really does not matter much. In Mastodon you can choose a french server if you are french and agree with generally accepted french values of moderation, or you can choose a general purpose server, or host your own. There are a lot of LGBT servers and special interest servers with strict moderation, and general purpose servers that moderate very little. It is also a bit like choosing what city to live in... except it is -much- easier to move if you decide you do not like the vibe and wish to live somewhere else. Mastodon has built-in user forwarding to take your follows and followers with you.