Then there’s the absolutely abysmal UX of following someone who exists on another Mastodon instance when you’re linked to their profile, which involves the non-obvious steps of manually copying and pasting a URL into a search box on your home instance, waiting for a connection to be made, then following them, at which point you won’t see any of their old posts, just their new ones. Compare and contrast with Twitter’s handling, which is where you search for a username and can see all their posts and can follow them without having to manually copy and paste a single damn thing.
If you are looking at a Lemmy community from kbin the instructions to follow ! community @ instance will not work. You have to replace the ! With @
I know the article is focusd on the mastodon UI, but it’s not a mastodon only problem
All of it is made worse by people claiming mastodon accounts can be used as a reddit alternative. I’m not really into Twitter, but I made a mastodon account thinking I could use it for kbin/lemmy and then realized I had been mislead.
Nailed it.
If you are looking at a Lemmy community from kbin the instructions to follow ! community @ instance will not work. You have to replace the ! With @
I know the article is focusd on the mastodon UI, but it’s not a mastodon only problem
All of it is made worse by people claiming mastodon accounts can be used as a reddit alternative. I’m not really into Twitter, but I made a mastodon account thinking I could use it for kbin/lemmy and then realized I had been mislead.