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Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince so

by vr46 2y ago

Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.

richrichardsson 2y ago
In my experience there's a huge barrier to entry for Mastodon. I've tried finding a server that worthwhile signing up to on 3 past occasions, every time I found one that seemed like a good fit they weren't accepting signups. Bluesky I got in before it was opened up by adding my email to the waitlist. Simple. And now it's even easier because there is no waitlist.
- technothrasher 2y ago
  I'm honestly not much of a social network user, but I signed up with universeodon and it seems to work fine as a mastodon server. Most of the people I follow are on different servers anyway, so I didn't worry so much about finding a server that was a "good fit" for me.
- prmoustache 2y ago
  Did you use this: https://joinmastodon.org/servers https://joinmastodon.org/servers ? I used it and found a decent one, managed by someone relatively local and active. Most of my followed accounts are on other servers but I haven't seen that as a big issue.
- vr46 2y ago
  I agree that there's a barrier, but it's not huge. Mastodon really could use some people versed in marketing and onboarding. People use email without realizing that it's decentralized, I tried to draw parallels between that and Mastodon to my friend, but I failed.
agumonkey 2y ago
I can't explain it fully but mastodon seems more confusing than bluesky, maybe too much emphasis on "you can have any server" which then creates more questions than it's necessary. It has also more features and terms.. while bluesky seems more efficient at getting you living in good old twitter like world which is people (at least I) missed ?

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Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince so

by vr46 2y ago

Yet another shitshow-in-waiting. I know Mastodon isn’t as polished but leaving one frying pan to get into another is a lost opportunity. I failed to convince somebody to move to Mastodon recently.

richrichardsson 2y ago
In my experience there's a huge barrier to entry for Mastodon. I've tried finding a server that worthwhile signing up to on 3 past occasions, every time I found one that seemed like a good fit they weren't accepting signups. Bluesky I got in before it was opened up by adding my email to the waitlist. Simple. And now it's even easier because there is no waitlist.
- technothrasher 2y ago
  I'm honestly not much of a social network user, but I signed up with universeodon and it seems to work fine as a mastodon server. Most of the people I follow are on different servers anyway, so I didn't worry so much about finding a server that was a "good fit" for me.
- prmoustache 2y ago
  Did you use this: https://joinmastodon.org/servers https://joinmastodon.org/servers ? I used it and found a decent one, managed by someone relatively local and active. Most of my followed accounts are on other servers but I haven't seen that as a big issue.
- vr46 2y ago
  I agree that there's a barrier, but it's not huge. Mastodon really could use some people versed in marketing and onboarding. People use email without realizing that it's decentralized, I tried to draw parallels between that and Mastodon to my friend, but I failed.
agumonkey 2y ago
I can't explain it fully but mastodon seems more confusing than bluesky, maybe too much emphasis on "you can have any server" which then creates more questions than it's necessary. It has also more features and terms.. while bluesky seems more efficient at getting you living in good old twitter like world which is people (at least I) missed ?