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> Why are you pretending that this isn't confusing to newbies? I'm not. Absolutely the onboarding experience can be improved. The problem is you're losing th
by BaseballPhysics 3y ago
> Why are you pretending that this isn't confusing to newbies?
I'm not. Absolutely the onboarding experience can be improved.
The problem is you're losing the plot, here.
The original commenter complained about having to "read up on what rights server admins have over my account, why I should choose one versus another, which servers are de-federating which others, et cetera."
But you don't have to do that if you don't want to. If you're already willing to blindly join Reddit, you can blindly join mastodon.social.
And the app is already now driving people to do that if they really don't care (which is what the OP claims).
So this is already being improved (and yes, can absolutely be improved further).
- anigbrowl 3y agoIt's 'being improved' even though it's been identified as a problem from the outset of the fediverse, nearly a decade ago. I don't know how to make this any simpler: Forced choices drive away users. People don't like making decisions without context because they feel like scams. That's why uptake is slow almost a decade into federation. The UX model is bad.
- BaseballPhysics 3y ago> It's 'being improved' even though it's been identified as a problem from the outset of the fediverse, nearly a decade ago. Ah, cool, so you just wanna complain. Got it. Carry on!
- brewdad 3y agoPicking a user name is a forced choice. By your logic, nobody would ever want to join a social media platform that didn't automatically assign a user name.
- anigbrowl 3y agoAsinine argument. Everyone already gets the concept of a name because they already have one. No such principle guides the selection of a server.
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