I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…

I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…

  •  zerkrazus   ( @zerkrazus@kbin.social ) 
    1•1 year ago

    IMO, on Mastodon for example, most people don’t understand federation and don’t care about it. It sounds scary and complicated to them. And also in Mastodon’s case at least, it’s still extremely difficult IMO, to find people/sites/etc. to follow about topics you care about. You still, AFAIK, can’t search by posts which is just dumb, IMO (at least on the instance/server) I’m on.

    The whole pick an instance/server thing also confuses people. Most people don’t care about that and don’t even need to know TBH. Just auto-assign them to the most popular one and those who care about such things can manually pick their own.

    •  topher   ( @topher@kbin.social ) 
      1•1 year ago

      You’re right, but it’s not just most people on Mastodon. Most people don’t understand or care about federation. I’m fairly tech savvy and I didn’t know that until 15 minutes ago I could see kbin microblogs on Mastodon if I wanted. It’s a feature that most tech-savvy users think is cool and 95% of normal people will find overly convoluted.

      Most people just want to know where to follow Ariana Grande or Adam Schefter.