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>The first step being a decision on where to set up an account is a non-starter for a huge number of people then the should just stay on twitter. The entire di

>The first step being a decision on where to set up an account is a non-starter for a huge number of people then the should just stay on twitter. The entire differentiator between Mastodon and Twitter is choice. It's akin to complaining about the fact that there's 50 states in the US and you have multiple elections to take part in and decide where you wanna live. It's all very complicated. Any technology that empowers people by definition makes it so they need to make their own choices. If these decentralized systems are to have any purpose it needs to stay that way. If that means you lose 90% of users, fine so be it honestly.

ZanyProgrammer 4y ago
> then the should just stay on twitter. The entire differentiator between Mastodon and Twitter is choice There's that OSS elitism we all know and love so much.
- Barrin92 4y ago
  it's literally the opposite of elitism. Demanding of people that they need to take control of the tools that they use and making tools that empower them recognizes that they are at least in principle able to do just that.What's really elitist is thinking that every piece of software needs to spoon-feed content to its users and eliminate all their choices because they're really too infantile to be bothered to make any decisions at all. Crazy world we're in where recognizing the potential for, and asking people to take control of their own actions is considered to be a symptom of elitism