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Guess I deserved that. See, my commentary is on the fact that other services have a zero-friction sign-in page that lets you join up very easily and quickly. Th
by Lendal 4y ago
Guess I deserved that. See, my commentary is on the fact that other services have a zero-friction sign-in page that lets you join up very easily and quickly. This is what users expect in 2022.
Mastodon doesn't have that. Instead, you have to read a wall of instructions and explanations about all the reasons one doesn't simply sign up for Mastodon. Next, you're asked to make a life-changing decision about a concept you just learned about for the first time, assuming you bothered to read that entire wall of previously-mentioned text. That is all friction. It's almost like Mastodon doesn't want any users.
Not to mention that people are often (but not always) multifaceted. We like sports, but we also like gadgets. We like to participate but we also like to be entertained. We like music but we also like computer programming. We like video games, Broadway shows, going to the beach. We like both dogs and cats. But Mastodon wants us to choose one and only one thing. That's what's stopping the flow of more people to Mastodon. They need to fix this, and fast.
- Cyberdog 4y ago"Life-changing decision?" My friend, you are signing up for an internet microblogging system, not getting married. I guess you're talking about what instance to create an account on, right? Well, you can create accounts on different instances if you want, and if you decide you don't like the instance your "main account" is on, you can migrate to a different one and all of your followers will still automatically follow you on the new one. Not even sure what you're talking about with the "multifaceted" bit. There's nothing stopping you from following people posting about all of those topics at once, just like you can on Twitter. Go right ahead. If you're thinking you're limited to just following people on the same single-topic instance as you, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the network works. As for "they need to fix this, and fast," presuming you actually do understand how federation works, then how do you propose it gets fixed without recentralizing everything?