Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@Gargron Yeah, it does. Snapchat, you pick up, you make an account, you take pictures, you add people. Sure, a lot of the features are weird and unintuitive but that just means most people wouldn't use all the features when they get started.
Mastodon already starts off at a disadvantage because you have to figure out how the system works before you even sign up, and since that's an inherent part of the fediverse, it needs to be done Extra Well.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@Gargron (2/2) Mastodon has a much steeper learning curve than other contemporary social media sites, which presents a large obstacle to switching. The only ways to get people past that obstacle are to give them sufficient motivation to keep going *before* they really get the core user experience - and the core user experience is what the "10x better" is about.
I don't think most people who could switch are getting sufficient motivation.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@Gargron "10x better" sounds like BS, to me, because you can't actually quantify relative quality like that in any sort of measurable way.
Taking the question as "enough of an improvement for people to switch", it depends a lot on two things. a) the use case of the person who might be switching, and b) how steep of a learning curve they're willing to go through to give another service a chance. (1/2)
Paul "CookieMom" Ference
Hey Fediverse! Have you published a game that you wouldn't mind having someone stream for a few hours? If so, let me know and I'll buy a copy, then set up a time to stream it. Let me know if I can help you out!
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@infinity wayyy ahead o' ya http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LoveDodecahedron
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@TheShyIon if I come up with a solid plot outline by the end of the day I'm gonna try it
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
so @TheShyIon suggested enemies-to-lovers and now all I can think of is that music video to that song Genghis Khan
I like to think that the three of them eventually work out a happy poly relationship
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@amphetamine hmmmmmm!
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@TheShyIon oh you mean my favorite heel-face turn type ever? :D
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
@Triplefox ooh uuugh that one
romcoms, hmm. I have seen more of those than I'd like, my mom likes them.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
so Lyn wants me to write an ace romance short story to submit to Cuil Press in two weeks but the anthology premise is to put a twist on a common romance plot trope and I have no idea what common romance plot tropes would *be* because like all but maybe five stories I've read that have romances in them were actually scifi or fantasy with romance subplots
and of those five-ish, most were Anne McCaffrey, who has her own very particular flavor of romance.
roland ๐น
They hatched
thomas
Dungeons & Dragons is in the business of selling fantasy. Not the stuff with the magic and monsters -- the part where you *actually believe* that you and several other likeminded adults will be able to coordinate your schedules on a regular basis.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
Y'all don't let me post on sleep deprivation before I've had coffee :gonk:
little lord boy ๐ ACAB ๐ฅ๐๐ฅ
I did some math with fiance and we can maybe squeeze by with only $250 but that's $250 I don't know where it comes from.
So again,
Pay me to draw you something? https://commiss.io/rhyspass
(if there's something you want that's not listed, I'll come up with a rate for you)
My portfolio: http://rhyspass.wixsite.com/portfolio
I am available for full time or part time remote graphic/illustration work
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Lord Guysbert de Fieri
These are not unique to mastodon, however. These are costs of running a social media website at all - fediverse or otherwise.
You're running and managing a service. Other people will rely on you to keep that service up and running. That's a much higher cost than the dollars involved.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
A larger instance doesn't just cost a little bit more money, it also requires far more labor hours to maintain.
Running a mastodon instance means things like, getting online in the morning and discovering that a stupid clock error on your server's machine took down your instance several hours ago while you were asleep, or coming back from dinner to discover that your instance was flooded and crashed by a bunch of celeb-fandom teenagers...
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
I'm seeing a bunch of posts today about how hosting a mastodon admin doesn't cost a lot of money, and first I want to say that this is true; you can run an instance on $10-20/mo entirely reasonably.
But I don't want anyone to forget that there is a labor cost in running and maintaining an instance. It's not just pushing a button and feeding in some money, it's also monitoring your server and keeping it secure and handling reports and doing upgrades and all fo that.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
please stop using "white" as short hand for "socially privileged" if you aren't actually talking about it in the context of being racially white, it muddies the dialogue unnecessarily and is some really fucking eurocentric bullshit.
Lord Guysbert de Fieri
๐ญ I feel like doing a quick drawing...
๐ฌ I know, I'll draw @squirrel !
*six hours later...*
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