CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@len I think you explained this more clearly and patiently than i did. Thank you.

@GrahamDowns

@GrahamDowns

Aight. That's totally fine. You mentioned not understanding not understanding why people find it confusing. I tried to explain.

The people who find it confusing don't know what IRC is, let along have used it, let alone think of it fondly. They don't remember the origins of gmail or think about MMO servers, let alone MMOs where you have to have a different character per server.

IRC is niche. MMOs are niche. The origin of gmail is far enough in the past that an entire generation has been born since and is now old enough to vote.

You don't seem interested in how someone else could find it confusing, which is chill, but I'm not gonna debate that with you. It's ok if you don't consider it friction. Other people do.

@GrahamDowns @libreoffice

Because few other social media offer that kind of friction to onboarding.

Other social media chases userbase, so of course they make creating an account as easy as possible, and because it's centralized, there is no second step to talk to anyone.

Imagine getting told about email for the first time only to be told that no, gmail isn't accepting new users, but other servers are, except you don't know what those other servers are or how they're different than the one you were told about.

Especially now that many people have friction or fear about creating yet another account that they'll have to remember the password for.

If you create a "mastodon account" you also have to remember what server you created it on.

This is all to say I understand where other people get stuck, and that's before they create an account and see an empty feed or try searching for their friend's account and cant find them.

@GrahamDowns @alex

Thanks!

Guilty as charged haha. I mostly play and talk about Street Fighter 6 right now, but also Soulslikes, RPG, and Shooters. I'm a PC player now but grew up on consoles exclusively.

@afreytes @yon @alexr_tk @Dio_Senrab @Varyag @monorail @ami_angelwings also come to mind for Gaming accounts.

The whole FGC.Network server is good for that. FGC is Fighting Game Community after all

I'll edit this post as i think of others

If you like the genre at all the FGC hashtag is a good one too since it's basically a subset of the gaming tag

The Meet the Grahams beat sounds like Silent Hill with a Black MC. That shit STILL sounds discordant and unsettling AF

https://youtu.be/Q1fExgfLebQ?si=aIZSo304RQNqEvNs

#Horror #Gaming #SilentHill