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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, I think you catchet the biggest problem I have with it immediatly. I’m thinjking of opening an issue maybe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure, but i guess that it is replicating Twitter behaviour. I got used to that quickly.

  But if you want a better experience you can easily find other front ends. I strongly suggest Phanpy that makes it really clear when a toot is part of a conversation/thread. It also does a lot of nice things like grouping boosts in horizontal carousels, collapsing long threads to avoid occpying the too many screens, and others, but it is still simple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think your steps from 2 to 8 are summed up in

  Create an account. Just like Twitter (or any other social media).

  Meaning that those are not any different than what you need to do in Twitter or facebook. Actually the consents you need and the app permissions are much simpler in Mastodon case

• An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodonwww.staygrounded.online ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Report – #116⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way I think the communication can be much simpler:

  From here: staygrounded.online/…/an-extremely-simple-guide-t…

  How do I use Mastodon?

  • Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.

  • Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)

  • Follow people, and get posting.

  Why do tech journalists say it’s too confusing to catch on?

  I have no fucking idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Report – #116⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A group of Italian women who attended the event abandoned their short effort to join the platform half-way into the presentation, confused about where to go and which app to use.

  Ouch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A load of mastodon users think groups are just autoboost accounts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Futhermore, comments aren’t grouped in the post. They are separated from their parent element. And you need to crawl back the comment to find its original post.

  if you use a client like Phanpy things become much better from that point of view. Strongly suggested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on lightweight platforms like gotosocial?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that the lightest you can get is SNAC: written in portable C, it requires only an ngix server, and no database.

  It’s ideal for single used instances or automated projects

  Here some background and how tos: …tesio.it/…/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.ht…

  And here the description of fedimeteo, that provides forecasts for thousands of cities on the fediverse using a slim low cost vps’ …dragas.net/…/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-be…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thank you! I will keep an eye on those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federated wiki software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah… Missing IMHO:

  • Strava like
  • IMDB like
  • stackoverflow like
  • google maps review like
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that Reddit is so much better. The interface at the moment is full of ads that make i confusing. The only thing is the community search that is a bit cumbersome, but this is due to federation, and understood. On the other hand the federation with Mastodon/Friendica/whatever is super-powerful, hand honestly enjoyable

  Thank you for all your work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that the same number of cells also dies in the same period!