Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months agoMastodon is a maze, or to put it differently, a mess. The one thing putting me off is needing to find an instance with the right collection of policies and rules, and I just can’t be bothered.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The entire point is you have a choice, though
Tattorack@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s fine until making that choice feels like sifting through a massive stack of paperwork.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My experience is signing up to a Mastodon instance a while ago then switching instances about two months ago, and all of it was exemplarily straightforward
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Choice is sometimes a bad thing.
Choice paralysis + the the fact that this random shitty instance that hosts maybe 300 people could go down at any moment + the admin could boot you for no seemingly no reason + the various issues with federation make it extremely unappealing for the average Joe. And if you want actual content and adoption you have to make concessions for them or else you’ll forever be irrelevant.