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The thing I love about this post and all its replies, is the stark difference in replies in answer to Brent's very reasonable question.
Some folks:
* It's the starter packs / easier onboarding!
Other folks:
[I'll let you read those replies]
https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/113478939656417633
If you think it's the starter packs / easier onboarding, then that leads you to want easier onboarding for Mastodon
If you think it's a character flaw or moral failing in people that choose BlueSky, that leads to doing nothing
I love BlueSky, mainly because it's now our best bet at Twitter not being as influential in the US midterm elections (that are coming up sooner than we think).
I like to brag and boast when I am right about a call, so it's only fair to admit when I'm wrong: I really thought Mastodon would get it together on the onboarding and trust and safety front.
In fairness, Mastodon is getting it together... but just far too slowly to matter. A slow "yes" is often the same outcome as a "no."
@mekkaokereke I had a hell of a time learning how to just sign up for mastodon, let alone use it. I have a ton of friends who gave up. They aren’t dumb; it was just really counterintuitive
Yes. I will cheerfully support efforts to improve this in whatever ways that I can. For now that's supporting a few servers, and Mastodon itself.
But, I do not have confidence that there is a project that really gets it. And there are still a lot of people who seem to actively want to keep things as they are because IDK it's... nerdy and exclusive or something?
@futurebird @Bronwyn @mekkaokereke fedi has turned into "we are better than those other twitter/x/whatever users" as opposed to "this platform is better". it's created a gatekeeper mentality wherein making things too "user friendly" is at the absolute bottom of the list because if you can't figure it out then that's your fault.
atop that, the ecosystem is enormously disaporic. i'm using gts via elk.zone, some people directly use mastodon's ui, some people use one of the others. if someone interested in fedi asked 10 people how to start they'd get 30 different answers that begin with "it depends".
i'm honestly getting increasingly tired of it and am looking at standing up my own bsky/atproto pds.