If you have to read a blog about how to sign up for it, it's not "easy to sign up". Signing up for mastodon is a series of hurdles with some extra steps in bet

If you have to read a blog about how to sign up for it, it's not "easy to sign up". Signing up for mastodon is a series of hurdles with some extra steps in between. Conceptually it's pretty far from what people are familiar with. It's a classic trap of tech nerds being way, way off base thinking that others would enjoy jumping through obscure hoops just like they do. Most people really don't. (This is coming from someone who grew up on dialup / bbs / sweaty underground diskette auctions)