>This time, with Mastadon, it’s different because Mastadon is such a huge downgrade from what people were used to, and there is no will from the developers to do anything about it.
This was also my takeaway from the article. If you read this article only as an end-user wanting to get into Mastadon, it sounds like 100000% too much work. People are drawn toward FB, Instagram, and Tiktok because it's easy to jump in. As much as people cry about privacy (and they're not wrong), we see their behaviors are completely at odds with this belief: people will very easily trade their privacy for entertaining and easy-to-use platforms.
For Mastadon to succeed beyond the dozens of webdevs who want to use it, it needs to think more about the end-user.
Palmsiepoo t1_j2agwlt wrote
Reply to comment by SyrioForel in Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers | Standards-based interoperability makes a comeback, sort of by Hrmbee
>This time, with Mastadon, it’s different because Mastadon is such a huge downgrade from what people were used to, and there is no will from the developers to do anything about it.
This was also my takeaway from the article. If you read this article only as an end-user wanting to get into Mastadon, it sounds like 100000% too much work. People are drawn toward FB, Instagram, and Tiktok because it's easy to jump in. As much as people cry about privacy (and they're not wrong), we see their behaviors are completely at odds with this belief: people will very easily trade their privacy for entertaining and easy-to-use platforms.
For Mastadon to succeed beyond the dozens of webdevs who want to use it, it needs to think more about the end-user.