Notices by 😈 DEMONarchy 🤔 (demonarchy@monsterpit.net)

Something I notice quite a bit when people are trying to convince others to try Mastodon is that they put most of their focus into the infrastructure.

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This is all well and good, but doesn't quite answer why someone should give their time and attention to it.

"Is it easy to use?"
"Who uses it?" "Are my friends there?"
"How do I find people to talk to?"
"Can I use it on my phone?"
"Which instance do I choose?"

FTP is a friendly transfer protocol that just happens to also transfer files.

When an FTP client connects to an FTP server, they exchange pleasantries, then sit down with each other have rousing discussions about their lives.

Once they're caught up, the client takes the stack of books it was handed by the user and proceeds to have an hour-long discussion about their contents.

The user is later upset because they've discovered those books were actually ZIP archives that were transferred in ASCII mode.

@Elizafox

😌 "I organize all my files using nothing but shell voodoo. What about you?"

😕 "I dunno; I just drag stuff around in Nautilus because it's easi–"

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