all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
This kind of take is one of many reasons why activitypub protocols are not more widely adopted. You practically need to work in tech to understand half of what’s going on. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say people must have a severe learning disability if they’re struggling with understanding or if they simply don’t want to spend the time to learn when they run into people sharing takes like this.
I’m not formally trained in tech, and neither are a lot of people here, but we all managed it just fine. The parent comment is true, the difficulty isn’t in joining but in finding people to follow and, conversely, in finding followers. There are no verified accounts and no convenient suggestions that Twitter et al provide, and so the “creators” on Twitter are bound to have a much harder time here.
Two weeks ago I had no presence on Fediverse, and frankly I still don’t know how it works internally, but I can still use it.
It is as hard to grasp as email. Instead of everyone being on gmail.com people just are on different servers but they can still talk to each other.
I do admit that Lemmy is confusing and requires a lot of polish in area of UX, (I think kbin (incidentally created by a Polish) provides a better experience, especially for new users, although it still isn’t prefect, but it is getting there), but Mastodon is very simple to use.
I got one and I wasn’t even on Twitter. Also all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
I suspect the real reason is that they are afraid of losing existing followers.
This kind of take is one of many reasons why activitypub protocols are not more widely adopted. You practically need to work in tech to understand half of what’s going on. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say people must have a severe learning disability if they’re struggling with understanding or if they simply don’t want to spend the time to learn when they run into people sharing takes like this.
I’m not formally trained in tech, and neither are a lot of people here, but we all managed it just fine. The parent comment is true, the difficulty isn’t in joining but in finding people to follow and, conversely, in finding followers. There are no verified accounts and no convenient suggestions that Twitter et al provide, and so the “creators” on Twitter are bound to have a much harder time here.
Two weeks ago I had no presence on Fediverse, and frankly I still don’t know how it works internally, but I can still use it.
It is as hard to grasp as email. Instead of everyone being on gmail.com people just are on different servers but they can still talk to each other.
I do admit that Lemmy is confusing and requires a lot of polish in area of UX, (I think kbin (incidentally created by a Polish) provides a better experience, especially for new users, although it still isn’t prefect, but it is getting there), but Mastodon is very simple to use.