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@Tock @hosford42 @AdrianRiskin @nieuemma @AgentK @ErikUden I hadn't even noticed. Good point. This "Lexi" person is looking more and more like a troll. I mean, they didn't block me after threatening to do that to people. This is about whipping up a fight that has, now, pretty successfully distracted us from that awesome Nazi-punchin' kid.

@hosford42 @AdrianRiskin @nieuemma @AgentK @ErikUden I was going to say: it's trivially easy to get a basic translation if you want it. Complaining about people posting in their own language just kinda makes you look like a clown.

@LALegault Not even slightly surprising

@ozeng @print You are correct. I was attaching stigma to it.

@ozeng @print This is gatekeeping.

@IveyJanette @bitpickup@troet.cafe @NickGates @futurebird @taylorlorenz Nice!

@bitpickup @taylorlorenz @andyinabox All done. You're trolling.

@print What are you talking about?

@sidereal @brandonscript @taylorlorenz That's fair. More *real* engagement rather than hundreds or thousands of bot-likes. I'd agree with that.

@print Sure, you *can*, but what we're talking about is bringing more people in to Mastodon, and something automatic, something one-touch, user-friendly is how you do that: make the default Mastodon "app" a web app, installable like an app.

@bitpickup @andyinabox @taylorlorenz Yeah, it did:

"The fact that influencer like you refuse to setup their own instances."

@IveyJanette @bitpickup @NickGates @futurebird @taylorlorenz I think I need to get off soon if it's true that they welcomed ICE and Trump. That said, I'm hearing that that might have been faked, so I have to look into it more closely.

@bitpickup @taylorlorenz "Refuse" implies she has a responsibility to do it, and I'm not seeing that as anyone's responsibility. Setting up an instance takes time, technical skill, and money. Nobody owes any of that to the world. I'm grateful to those who do, and I support them financially because it can, but that's all.

@T_X @stefan @taylorlorenz I was here during the migration, and I'd agree. It's also the case that new users occasionally acted like the bad kind of tourist: "Why isn't this place just like home?" That clash was a big part of the problem.

@jsatk @taylorlorenz The signup contains a step that, while not actually difficult, is not presented in a way that's recognizable to users, and that's what makes it "hard." People are hesitant about the unfamiliar. There's a way to present that so it feels like tapping on icons that represent your interests or whatever. That's a "UX" issue that could be solved, IMO.

@marymessall @taylorlorenz Following hashtags really should be packaged as less technical and more fun. As in, "here are some keywords, tap the ones that interest you!" and then automate that so that they're following those hashtags.

Also, for the love of GOD, make it so I can follow a hashtag in a list. I *need* an exclusive #Linux feed to escape the world.

@bitpickup @taylorlorenz @mastohost

"refuse" ?

@NickGates @bitpickup @futurebird @IveyJanette @taylorlorenz Yup. Generally speaking, if there are no Black people in your space, then you have not made a space in which they feel welcome. That's not on them.

@Jude_theone479001 @taylorlorenz This is very well said. It does actually take work to *build* your place, here, and that's rewarding in a way that "user friendliness" often is not.

I will say this, though: Bluesky users created "starter packs" and block lists and stuff like that, partly because, like Twitter before it, at least at first, when users innovated (eg, hasghtags), the admins embraced it. I'm not seeing that on Mastodon. I do hope the new governance model makes that better.

@skjeggtroll @taylorlorenz I do not disagree with you broadly speaking, but the one thing I will say is that we do have communities in the form of your instance's feed, which is why it would be great if there were a truly user-friendly way to match people to instances.