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An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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That's the thing
Every new user should by default download the official Mastodon app and make a mastodon.social account.
Any other choice should be under an expandable Advanced or Custom Account Creation.
Techies claiming to have to idea what the problem is are really revealing a serious lack of intelligence.
People are primates. Chimps with language.
You've seen the video of the chimp browsing Instagram. That's what the user is like. That's how easy you need to make the UX.
Largely, they're clueless with simple motivations. They don't care about helping the fediverse be a viable and growing competitor to corporate social media. They don't share your goal, they don't care, they won't suffer through even the slightest inconvenience for this.
So make the decision for them. Don't present them with the list of choices unless they specifically ask for it.
Put horse blinders on them.
They need it.
I could've sworn Mastodon's official app signs you up to m.s as the default instance now? I remember there being a massive roar on their GitHub when they started pushing the change.
Did it get rolled back?
No, it does. Sign up is extremely straightforward now. All things involving federation are essentially optional on the official app.
Yes my thoughts exactly. When email was too confusing ISPs included it pre-configured as a perk initially and Gmail came later.
My feelings in regards to social media are stop the bleeding first, remove society's dependence on X, Meta, and other for-profit platforms. Then we can worry about educating "normal" people on Federation, ActivityPub, etc.
ISPs included email because almost everyone was a modem user (and hence only connected sporadically) and email servers need constant uptime or they lose messages.
They also ran news servers and hosted user web pages for basically the same reason.
Only freaks and weirdos (like me) ran servers from home.