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There’s so much misunderstanding in Mastodon written down by @LanceUlanoff in http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/mastodon-wont-survive/#XKW5nesNXOqt that I wonder what we could do better to explain the distributed web.
Yes, you can follow people on other nodes, yes you’ll have a more complex username bound to a node (it’s like an email address).
It’s not the best UX so far but it’s a small project that just took off. At least it has more potential already than most competitors.
@helloanselm @LanceUlanoff @NthTensor Is there a definitive #toottorial yet?
@NicePoint @helloanselm @NthTensor "Tootorial." Guess that was inevitable.
@LanceUlanoff @helloanselm @NthTensor
Of course it was. Low-Hanging Froot, I should think.
@LanceUlanoff so basically thanks for writing this article.
It’s helpful to understand why people misunderstand or even dislike a distributed service like this.
Lots of the problems you encounter could be solved by documenting it better or have a clearer user interface, some others probably need more teaching in why distributed systems *are* different to centralized.