This name will never not read to me as "bloo-skee"
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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You can just click Follow and start following someone. You don’t have to perform a copy-paste dance to bring the username back to your instance and do the following there.
The process got easier in mastodon 4.2.0, now you just have to type in your instance and it takes you to it directly.
Who wants to type anything?
Billionaire backing.
They have the main thing masses often look for: unity (as in the state of being united, not the company). Like it or not, federation is a brand new concept that regular users can't wrap their heads around.
Federation a brand new concept.
LOL!
You're dismissing the fact that web browsing and e-mail are federated. DNS too. Usenet. Gopher. IRC to a certain point.
Not a brand new concept.
See my other reply. Regular users don't understand, nor care, nor even think about it. To the mainstream, of everything you've listed, only email is a common concept, and even then you have some major congregation with very few providers. It doesn't matter that your bubble is used to it, because it represents a risible percentage of the mainstream.
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Email has been around for what, 50 years? I guess that makes me a brand new concept too.
I can guarantee you regular users don't ever think of email as a federated service nor even begin to understand how it works behind the opaque client page.
Better posts. Feeds (like categories replacing hashtags) are great.