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Jeroen Flamman @jflamman@mastodon.social
DJ - Producer - Developer - Lower East Side Records - Party Animals - Fierce Ruling Diva - Flamman & Abraxas - also in Dutch at @mstdn.nl: @jflamman
Did you know that in The Netherlands the @ sign is called "apenstaart" (monkey tail). Now you know..
The AndroidPIT article about Mastodon thinks that Mastodon "probably won't work" because:
- new users don't know who to follow or what to engage with
- additional complexity (instances, local/federated timelines) is a turn off
I find this the exact opposite of my experience. It was obvious what to do when you were new. The federated timeline had all the activity in it. When I learned that Mastodon could federate with other (GS) instances (people talked about it on the federated timeline after all), I looked at their public timelines and found more activity. Just knowing about federation helped me understand the concept of local and federated timelines.
My impression is that the writer was expecting Mastodon to suggest to them a list of people to follow, or provide a gentler onboarding experience. Twitter is not federated, so while a user coming to a Twitter-like service shouldn't expect to know what federation is, I still don't think it's a difficult concept at all.
- new users don't know who to follow or what to engage with
- additional complexity (instances, local/federated timelines) is a turn off
I find this the exact opposite of my experience. It was obvious what to do when you were new. The federated timeline had all the activity in it. When I learned that Mastodon could federate with other (GS) instances (people talked about it on the federated timeline after all), I looked at their public timelines and found more activity. Just knowing about federation helped me understand the concept of local and federated timelines.
My impression is that the writer was expecting Mastodon to suggest to them a list of people to follow, or provide a gentler onboarding experience. Twitter is not federated, so while a user coming to a Twitter-like service shouldn't expect to know what federation is, I still don't think it's a difficult concept at all.
As an aside:
Being a community moderator means occasionally removing people whose sole offense is being an obnoxious turd. It doesn't matter if they've broken the rules if their presence drives people away. Letting them stick around is just as damaging as being capricious and LART-happy.
Don't let assholes stink the place up.
Hello Social - this will be my handle for posts in English. For posts in Dutch I'm running my own instance at https://mstdn.nl
I think the back button is brocke
