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Mpeach45@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m frankly mystified by anyone who thinks Mastodon is “too technical.”
Please explain. Because the steps as far as I know are:
Because the steps for Xitter were :
Even one extra step that adds friction can lead to you just not doing the thing.
Mega-orpos spend billions to reduce the number of steps to opening your wallet, because they make it back tenfold.
Especially when that extra step is something that doesn’t make sense in their mental model of what a service is or how it works. Like, I want an account. I go to site. Sign up, right? Nope, you have to select where to sign up. What? It’s a huge hurdle.
Auth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Those arent the steps. There is a 6th one because you have to go find content. Whats served up by default is random and not very good compared with the algorithmic feeds of other platforms.
DoctorPress@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Isn’t that one of purpose of mastodon? Not having addictive algorithms?
Auth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I dont find them addictive, just useful.
realitista@lemmus.org 3 days ago
What Bluesky did right was allow you to easily get started with starter packs and block lists. You can have a good feed set up in a few hours versus likely years on Mastodon. And then you can choose if you want algorithms or no algorithms and if you choose that you want one, you can choose which one. Mastodon needs to copy those things and it will be the final destination.
Auth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bluesky did a lot right. I really hate it because of that. I think its going ot eventually win out and become exactly the same as twitter.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If you want algorithmic slip then why not just be on corporate owned platforms? The only people that want to feed you slop are those trying to harm you. The fediverse isn’t going to do that, they don’t have a motive for it.
Auth@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I dont want corporate platforms to be the only ones to implement recommendation algorithms. The problem with the platform is its a blackbox not that it has algorithmic recommendations. And the fediverse will do it, there is already the beginnings of recommendation algorithms.