People don't get what "it's like email" means, and even if they do they're trying to sign up on arbitrary servers that they pulled off a listing that might not even be open for registration, to a website with a possibly bespoke UI they can't find tutorials for. A number of people navigate phones and computers through very specific steps with icons, like people who still can't get online without clicking on an "e" icon in the exact spot it's been for twenty years.
Once registetered, posts are hard to get. If you follow your friends, you might not see any of their posts because your instance has not federated with their instance before, none of their posts from before you followed them will be visible. And that is only if the two instances have not gotten into a huge beef and defederated, making interactions impossible - with you, the user, not likely knowing that is why you can't add your friend. And lots of instances defederate from large instances, especially mastodon.social.
You simply cannot expect a normal, well adjusted person to possibly navigate that web of grievances, especially in a Twitter format where you're primarily an individual following other individuals, socially unconnected to your instance but beholden to years of internet mod slapfights about that time an instance only warned instead of banned someone for posting a picture of food without a CW - or for literally talking about being black and not CWing it because liberals didn't want to be reminded racism is routine.
I don't allow myself to call people stupid, it forces me to try to actually think through the actual factors at play. I think most people simply do not care as much about posting as we do and are unwilling to put in the extra work to be a poster, especially if that work is emotionally draining to avoid a "bad" instance you picked because it has a cool name and a topic you liked.
i forgot that literally the app you have to download to actually use the thing called "mastodon" is a pile of shit. everyone tells you it is bad and that you should actually be using bullshit like Fartle or iOS exclusive Sheen but they all have their pros and cons so you'll need to try them all and decide for yourself. you pick one. it cannot currently handle DM's. you have to download a separate app and follow its installation instructions to get notification support. someone tells you the creator abandoned it six months ago and is also mastodon cancelled for saying the gamer word. you log off. the instance you were on is unable to process the request for six hours because it was running full fat mastodon on a raspberry pi 3 in someone's closet.
People don't get what "it's like email" means, and even if they do they're trying to sign up on arbitrary servers that they pulled off a listing that might not even be open for registration, to a website with a possibly bespoke UI they can't find tutorials for. A number of people navigate phones and computers through very specific steps with icons, like people who still can't get online without clicking on an "e" icon in the exact spot it's been for twenty years.
Once registetered, posts are hard to get. If you follow your friends, you might not see any of their posts because your instance has not federated with their instance before, none of their posts from before you followed them will be visible. And that is only if the two instances have not gotten into a huge beef and defederated, making interactions impossible - with you, the user, not likely knowing that is why you can't add your friend. And lots of instances defederate from large instances, especially mastodon.social.
You simply cannot expect a normal, well adjusted person to possibly navigate that web of grievances, especially in a Twitter format where you're primarily an individual following other individuals, socially unconnected to your instance but beholden to years of internet mod slapfights about that time an instance only warned instead of banned someone for posting a picture of food without a CW - or for literally talking about being black and not CWing it because liberals didn't want to be reminded racism is routine.
I don't allow myself to call people stupid, it forces me to try to actually think through the actual factors at play. I think most people simply do not care as much about posting as we do and are unwilling to put in the extra work to be a poster, especially if that work is emotionally draining to avoid a "bad" instance you picked because it has a cool name and a topic you liked.
Great take
i forgot that literally the app you have to download to actually use the thing called "mastodon" is a pile of shit. everyone tells you it is bad and that you should actually be using bullshit like Fartle or iOS exclusive Sheen but they all have their pros and cons so you'll need to try them all and decide for yourself. you pick one. it cannot currently handle DM's. you have to download a separate app and follow its installation instructions to get notification support. someone tells you the creator abandoned it six months ago and is also mastodon cancelled for saying the gamer word. you log off. the instance you were on is unable to process the request for six hours because it was running full fat mastodon on a raspberry pi 3 in someone's closet.