Just reading through the replies on X to @libreoffice 's recent tweet about how they're going to be focussing more on Mastodon in future.
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@GrahamDowns Corporate social media invests a huge amount of time, effort, and money into making the onboarding experience completely effortless, no thought required, and making new users start seeing content immediately because of the algorithmic feed.
This is the standard against which people are judging the fedi.
"You are the algorithm" means you need to do some work to find your people here. People don't expect or want that. They're lazy and want everything handed to them.@GrahamDowns You also need to consider the possibility that a lot of the attacks on the fedi on Twitter are probably inauthentic. Obviously the entities benefitting from being able to expose people to constant propaganda on Twitter do not want people to leave for a social network with an aggressive anti-Nazi culture and the means to enforce it. The fedi is a threat to the Nazis, and they deploy their bots and nonsense machine against all threats.
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@GrahamDowns Corporate social media invests a huge amount of time, effort, and money into making the onboarding experience completely effortless, no thought required, and making new users start seeing content immediately because of the algorithmic feed.
This is the standard against which people are judging the fedi.
"You are the algorithm" means you need to do some work to find your people here. People don't expect or want that. They're lazy and want everything handed to them.@jik Yeah. But my original observation was that I don't consider the fact that there are multiple servers and you need to pick one to join, whereupon you can follow users on any other server, difficult to understand at all.
It was completely intuitive to me back in November 2022 when I first joined -- and in fact, it was a plus for me.
But other replies to that post indicate that I'm in the minority, and that even most Mastodon users *do* consider that unintuitive and difficult to understand. So I'll just shut up now and go sit in the corner.
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@GrahamDowns Found it: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21556
I went ahead and linked this recent debacle.
@bammerlaan Ah, thank you for this!
I myself have opened a similar issue recently:
Make it more clear when user visits a login page of a server that's not their own · Issue #37690 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch The current login page makes it clear that the user should not attempt to log in on a server that is not their home server, but perhaps there is a way to make it even more abundantly clear. Here is my proposal using a placeholder l...
GitHub (github.com)
Hopefully we'll see some improvements in this area, feels like pretty low-hanging fruit with a big payoff, if we can reduce the confusion.
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@bammerlaan Ah, thank you for this!
I myself have opened a similar issue recently:
Make it more clear when user visits a login page of a server that's not their own · Issue #37690 · mastodon/mastodon
Pitch The current login page makes it clear that the user should not attempt to log in on a server that is not their home server, but perhaps there is a way to make it even more abundantly clear. Here is my proposal using a placeholder l...
GitHub (github.com)
Hopefully we'll see some improvements in this area, feels like pretty low-hanging fruit with a big payoff, if we can reduce the confusion.
@stefan @GrahamDowns Ah! I'll write a comment to link these two separate issues together then
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@stefan @GrahamDowns Ah! I'll write a comment to link these two separate issues together then
@bammerlaan Saw your comment, thank you!
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