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No one outside of tech nerds or PR departments is going to get seriously into Mastodon. My wife and her lib/moderate friends checked it out and went right back
by Vaslo 4y ago
No one outside of tech nerds or PR departments is going to get seriously into Mastodon. My wife and her lib/moderate friends checked it out and went right back to Twitter. Too confusing, one husband was banned from one instance and caused issues getting onto others, hard to understand why.
- jacquesm 4y agoMastodon has moved well beyond where I thought it would in spite of having some pretty glaring shortcomings. If they fix those it will explode. A 'Mastondoninabox' distribution would be a very nice starting point.
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- pohl 4y agoI know from personal experience that this is exactly wrong. Most of the left-leaning blue-checks that I followed on Twitter became mastodon users starting about a week after he carried the literal sink in through the door. It accelerated during subsequent events. While I still laughed when Paul Ford recently characterized Mastodon as "socialists who solder", the truth is that far more ordinary folk than I thought possible made it past the senseless UX hurdles that Mastodon makes new users jump over right away. I was amazed. This new policy against sharing Mastodon links makes me think their numbers are showing an exodus of users toward it.