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.
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.