It will never go mainstream. Stop pushing it. It's too user-hostile to replace Twitter.

I'm not disagreeing, but at the same time Twitter itself was user hostile in the past (and arguably still is in some regards).

Not hating on it, but if they truly want to go big they have to get rid of the federated server system.

A new user shouldn't see servy.mc-server.com as a landing page, it's alien language and you're not really aware of the consequences of your choices. Is it forever? Can I change server? Can my account go global despite being hosted there?

Democracy might be the most misused word in history

I think it's a feature to not have that kind of person on the network.

Average intelligence of the user base goes up, and there are fewer trolls.

It's not hard to do a bit of reading and learning before engaging with the platform. Well, not hard for thoughtful, intelligent people.

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If you're looking to grow a social platform, looking at people who don't want to think about selecting a server as unintelligent would be a horrible way to go about it.

Growth = death of quality for social media. Happens to everything. Every subreddit that gets big gets shit unless it is heavily moderated.

Most people are just stupid and annoying. Sorry but that's the truth, and if you worked with the general public you would agree.

I believe Churchill had something to say about the best argument against democracy being a 5 minute conversation with a typical voter.

But, it's so fetch!

Social networks need users in order to be useful. We can disagree what that number is, and I agree that there's a point at which additional users don't add benefit. I don't think Mastadon is at that point, but obviously ymmv.

Came here for this…..

Not hating on it, but if they truly want email to go big they have to get rid of the federated domain system.

A new user shouldn’t see gmail.com as a landing page, it’s alien language and you’re not really aware of the consequences of your choices. Is it forever? Can I change my email provider? Can my email account go global despite being hosted at Gmail?

We don’t want a Twitter replacement not do we want Twitter. The reason why its mainstream, is because journalists would scoop tweets by celebrities.

Nice parroting but this doesn't make any sense. People know what an email address is and what is its function, it has been part of their lives for 30 years. People don't understand why they should choose a group that looks like an obscure URL, that has no indication of its topic/specialization and without even knowing if their account will exist only there or if it will be site-wide.

You should take a UX course. This is exactly why nerd shit never goes mainstream.

If you want to use a centralised service, just use Twitter.

Exponentially!

If what you're saying made any sense, we'd all still be stuck in 1982, without any of this "nerd shit" going mainstream. Do you think email was always part of people's lives for 30 years, or was there an adjustment period where ordinary people were motivated to learn something new?

I've taken many UX courses, although they never teach you how to win over pessimists or weird nerds who fawn over billionaires.

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Inconceivable!

To start using Mastodon, I have to find a server, and somehow evaluate the policies of the sysadmin ? Hope that that server doesn't have a bad reputation, and thus blocked by other servers ?

Then find people I want to follow, on that server or other servers ?

And hope that my home server doesn't quit or kick me out, because then I lose my whole ID and config, have to start over again ?

I hate when software is a person, and not code