FYI- you haven’t needed to do that with Mastodon for a while now. Signing up and following people on the Mastodon app is literally just as easy as it is on BS. All the Federation stuff is hidden unless you want to look for it. It’s very nice.
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son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Easier sign up. On BlueSky you can just sign up for an account and go. You don’t have to worry about picking an instance or anything like on Mastodon, which can be a bit off-putting for someone not familiar with federation.
Corgana@startrek.website 1 year ago
russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 1 year ago
Isn’t BlueSky still on an invite system?
legion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s ridiculous how much Mastodon advocates downplay this.
I strongly prefer Mastodon over the alternatives, but the onboarding experience is BAD for the average user.
Corgana@startrek.website 1 year ago
Onboarding to Mastodon is actually identical to BS/Threads now. They’ve made huge improvements. It’s a shame that most of the news media’s experience discovering Mastodon for the first time was in Oct '22 because it’s left a bit of a “techie” aura around the whole thing they’re still trying to shake off.
lowered_lifted@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A lot of journalists are really bad at using the machine they use to do their job and it shows.
NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
For a while now, the app has been really easy to sign up on, and now the website is the same.