Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon

LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Kirk@startrek.website ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  When using the official Mastodon app (as suggested in the guide) “instances” are not a factor at all (unless the user specifically goes out of their way). A new user could have never even heard of the term “instance” and the above steps would work fine.

  You don’t just download the app, create an account, and go.

  Actually with Mastodon this is literally how it works.

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• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  then you need to decide your instance

  Just use mastodon.social

  If you feel like you want to join a more specific community then you can

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance, we’re basically right back where we started. We want people to be distributed among other instances.

    If one instance has 97% of the userbase then they basically get to dictate the whole thing. What if mastodon.social ended up being hexbear or lemmygrad? Or some MAGA right wing instance?

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    • lgsp@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We both know that is not how this should work. If everybody joins the same instance

      But this doesn’t happen. Mastodon.social is far from 90%, and the former CEO made the choice of letting control go to an entity that is no-profit, I think it’s the right choice.

      • The casual user joins mastodon.social (default highlighted choice). He can enjoy the Fediverse and discover its complexity with experience, not by understanding everything in advance.
        • He can the move to another instance if he feels so, after undetstanding what this actually means
      • The more advanced user probably already knows the instance thing, and maybe doesn’t even use the offical app

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    • manxu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I think it's the "basically" part in basically right back where we started that makes the difference. Even if 100% of Fediverse users were on a single instance, once that instance starts pulling Musk moves, the users can move somewhere else.

      Only if that instance defederates from everyone else do we get the Twitter situation again. Or, since that's actually what happened, Truth Social, which I think is just a slightly modified Mastodon instance with federation disabled/deactivated.

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• Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thanks for the honesty!

  It used to blow my mind that the “omg how can the vote for Trump are they blind fanatics!n!?” would be the same “Omg how do you not see how easy this is!!?” people, but now I realize it’s just people being loyal to their team, whatever it is.

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