Long read but well worth it if you care.
Edit: I found the author’s initial posts on Mastodon. It’s also well-worth the read.
Long read but well worth it if you care.
Edit: I found the author’s initial posts on Mastodon. It’s also well-worth the read.
so this is just inflammatory?
Seriously, I have been trying and slowly learning as Linux too has been developed to be more user friendly, am I “failing”?
This is a really poor take by someone it feels like spent more time on this post and the complaints than trying at all to adapt to the new place.
Like this bit:
You wat? I want a place to talk to people, REAL PEOPLE, about topics (and that can be searched using hashtags, which you can).
The point of Mastodon is it isn’t Twitter but offers a lot of the socializing of twitter! What?!
They really let just anyone post anything.
I definitely care about decentralization, I think the author of this article assumes a lot about user opinion.
Yeah but since we’re not “normal” (read, mindless users) we don’t count as “real”.
It also isn’t that Mastodon is necessarily a replacement for Twitter (or Lemmy for reddit). I use these communities vastly differently than I did those two places: I am much more involved and feel like an actual part of my curated communities. I’m not a lurker or a pair of potential eyes to be advertised at.
The ways that our Fediverse options are different are myriad and immensely important in a way that most outside observers don’t get. These aren’t “just replacements” at all; they’re communities—and upgraded ones at that.
Well, he’s got a point in the first part you quoted.
Most “regular” people, the not-techies, are simply not interested in the technology or ideology behind a product. And Mastodon is a product in that sense.
What counts for most people is convenience, price and utilitity. If Mastodon adds complexity to the usage or lacks the content momentum, it’s simply not attractive to most regular people. And that’s not a hurr-durrr normies stupid rant, that’s how most people feel about most things. You probably don’t really care, how the oats in your oatmeal were produced, or your shirt, etc. You may would choose the morally superior one of you’d have the choice, but would you go out of your way to find that product?
Whether that counts as “failing” is a completely different question. But if the mission of Mastodon is to take over the position Twitter and Facebook have today, well then there’s definitely a good chance it’s failing that mission.