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Imagine your mom emails you and asks why she can't access her favourite subreddit anymore and you have to explain she now has to make 2 different accounts to ac
by dmix 3y ago
Imagine your mom emails you and asks why she can't access her favourite subreddit anymore and you have to explain she now has to make 2 different accounts to access different subreddits. I mean 'instances'. I just picture my own trying to wrap her head around "why".
It sounds like a minor hurdle to our demographic but most people are super lazy and bad at juggling online authentications. I would never recommend Mastodon to any non-tech person for that reason (beyond the other UI issues) unless there was a specific niche community they were interested in.
- diggernet 3y agoImagine your mom emails you... And you never receive it, because her email service had defederated from yours. This whole defederation thing is going to guarantee a win for centralized services.
- ric2b 3y agoWell, if your mom asks you why she can't view a banned subreddit you can only tell her "tough" or "that community went to that other website", so you can say the same here. But you also have the option of using an instance that didn't ban the community you're interested in, which you don't with reddit.
- orangepurple 3y agoYou don't need to make 2 different accounts to access different instances unless you want to post.
- dmix 3y agoOr upvote? "You don't need an account on social media unless you want to interact with people on the internet"
- burnished 3y agoI can explain it to your mom: "they broke up and stopped talking to each other".