Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on)

squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• JustinHanagan@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can just click "no thanks" to the subscription box, but I've copy-pasted the full guide (short version) here for you:

  1. Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.

  2. Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)

  3. Follow people, and get posting.

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  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of all the sites with popups, this site is one of the least annoying.

    The most annoying is video popups. Those get ublocked.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s more of a substack issue

  The content of the guide (the real guide linked below) is pretty good :)

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• li10@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you just open up and then close like every site you visit??

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen a popup ad in years

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    • li10@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not a pop up ad, it’s a little pop up on the page asking to subscribe to a mailing list, I see them on most sites that host articles.

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      • Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No pop-ups are acceptable. It doesn’t matter how small the pop-up is.

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      • tim-clark@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So ads for their mail list and more data to be sold later. Size doesn't matter when it comes to ads and nefarious content.

        It's just a little pop up...

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  if you power through that then next stop is that this is not the full article and need to click “Read full story”

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