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Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp

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Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mastodon-is-making-its-decentralized-social-network-easier-to-use-with-its-latest-revamp/

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  • manxu@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Look like good changes to me. There was nothing wrong with Mastodon, but sometimes you really had to have been a Mastodon user already to know how it works.

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    • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The tooltip explanation for the handles should help, since that’s a very common point of confusion.

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  • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Changes look good but god dam I hate the discourse around fediverse software its like pulling teeth.

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    • Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s not that bad.

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  • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads.

    People use Facebook Threads? That sounds like saying “especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to Reddit or New Digg.”

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    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

      People were autoregistered for threads if they already had an account for instagram or facebook iirc. It also auto reposts stuff between those services unless you turn it off i think.

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    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      X and threads are Microblog pages, seems plausible to me to use them as a comparison. It’s the platforms we want to migrate people from to mastodon.

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      • otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        I agree, rather I was surprised that threads grew big enough for people to be trying to migrate away from it.

        In my area / friend circles, I don’t know anyone that continued to use Threads after the initial launch. However, there are people using Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter

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  • Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Its social network”? Ewwww…

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    • SMillerNL@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.

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      • Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Mastodon didn’t invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth…

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  • redditmademedoit@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Realistic demo page: 5 posts, 0 interactions

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