Modern Industrial
These sorts of takes drive me crazy, because the concept is really easy: Mastodon is like a bunch of twitters that talk to each other.
Easy mode: Join Mastodon.social.
Normal mode: Pick an instance based on your interests.
Hard mode: Run your own instance.
I mean, the largest instance is randos, and one of the next largest is sex workers. This isn't rocket science.
Do we do a disservice by trying to start everyone at normal mode?
Kev Quirk
@Modern_Industrial I personally think that Mastodon is very simple to grasp, however the point of entry definitely needs work.
The Twitter OP has a point, unfortunately. Having to pick from thousands of instances, with no simple way to catalogue, search and filter, is extremely difficult.
I think it puts many users off.
Modern Industrial
@kev Very true. If I recall, the official list of instances is organized by instance/size instead of topic, right? Maybe that should be flipped? Like a word cloud of topics -> click -> instances for that topic?
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