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@megmac I’m not going to say only nerds live here, but every non-nerd I know whoose tried it has struggled immensly to understand how things worked and most just gave up. Not that I think the devs are bad or anything. Making open systems that are also user friendly is incredibly hard, and what Mastodon and fediverse have achieved is incredible given the parameters involved. 5 comments
@torb @megmac the issue is in part stuff like *this*- simply me trying to reply to this means loading up my *actual* residence instance just to reply. the dns record thing- i agree with, but that's not why people prefer bsky. they prefer bsky because it feels like a "best hits" of twitter UX, vs Mastodon's incredibly functional suite (if you have the time to learn all the offputting quirks that introduce tremendous friction for no reason and have no obvious solution) @torb @megmac I use both! I think mastodon is cool! I also think its full of people I don't really *click with* no matter the instance. whereas on bsky ive found my perfect mix of intelligent shitposters & tired techies *immediately*, like, within HOURS of starting. a feat I haven't pulled off on Mastodon despite putting in *hundreds of hours* I tried! really did! but I barely touch this place except to read/write a response to a post like this. It's just *so clunky* for me, not sure abt a fix |
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@torb I think this is really complicated and there aren't just two categories of people in the world. I follow quite a few people I wouldn't classify as more tech savvy than average and I wouldn't actually find this place very interesting if I didn't.
Honestly the most aggressive "it's too hard" people I've ever seen are also way above average techies. And then they go and set up some DNS records to get a name on bsky and talk about how it's the best thing since sliced bread because AOC is there.
Most other people bounce for more mundane reasons IME. Usually simple (but hard to solve) network effect and/or abuse stuff.
Techies can be the most ridiculously cynical people about what "normal people" can do imo. People will jump through a lot of hoops to go where the people are, and that remains the real problem for every nascent social network, including the fediverse.
@torb I think this is really complicated and there aren't just two categories of people in the world. I follow quite a few people I wouldn't classify as more tech savvy than average and I wouldn't actually find this place very interesting if I didn't.
Honestly the most aggressive "it's too hard" people I've ever seen are also way above average techies. And then they go and set up some DNS records to get a name on bsky and talk about how it's the best thing since sliced bread because AOC is there.