• JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com
    18·
    1 year ago

    It’s crazy how many people will just click accept on security warning them that an app will access literally everything on their phone.

    It’s also crazy how many people don’t even know that Threads is Meta… where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

  • ultrasquid@kbin.social
    61·
    1 year ago

    I’ve said this a bunch of times, but Mastodon’s use of a chronological feed is what kills it. What it really needs is for the default tab to be a “trending” tab, cause that’s what users want to see.

  • couragethebravedog@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    No, it’s mastodon but centralized. It takes all the difficulty out of signing up for the fediverse, like finding a server. I said it from day 1 on mastodon. We will never see mass adoption until there’s a simple sign up process. People like centralized because it’s easier.

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      0·
      1 year ago

      How is it difficult to find a server? Just pick whatever server you come across first and create an account.

      • Uvine_Umarylis@partizle.com
        1·
        1 year ago

        You tell the average dude about how servers exist and the first instinct is that it matters, so they stop, fret about the importance, look for a second, then just drop it because they dont give enough hoots yet to invest more effort versus using a centralized service.

        Want ppl to join, don’t even tell them about servers. No choice paralysis, no fear of being wrong, nada

    • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
      01·
      1 year ago

      Finding a server could not be any easier: https://joinmastodon.org/servers
      If they can’t manage that then maybe they should not be on the internet. If my 60yo dad can do it then so can they. Learned helplessness in anything involving IT is my pet peeve.

      • Square Singer@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Tbh, this is not a good solution.

        It dumps you in front of a wall of 22 pages of servers on my laptop (equivalent to 4.35 meters).

        Most of which have completely nonsensical descriptions.

        If I look at e.g. the first page (top 6 servers) I get these:

        • mastodon.social: The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
        • mstdn.jp: Mastodon日本鯖です． よろしくお願いいたします。 (Maintained by Sujitech, LLC)
        • mstdn.social: A general-purpose Mastodon server with a 500 character limit. All languages are welcome.
        • mastodon.world: Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.
        • mas.to: Hello! mas.to is a fast, up-to-date and fun Mastodon server.
        • mastodon.online: A newer server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit

        Ok, so of these I can only rule out mstdn.jp, because I don’t speak Japanese.

        mastodon.social and mastodon.official are, I guess, the “official” instances, with one of them being newer, for some reason. What does that mean? No idea. Is mastodon.social running out dated software? If not, why fork the instances at all?

        mstdn.social and mastodon.world mention that they are general purpose. Without (and even with) Fediverse experience, I would expect any social media platform to be general purpose unless otherwise stated. So they basically have no description.

        mas.to mentions only that it’s “fast, up-to-date and fun”. That basically has no meaning, except all other instances are slow, outdated and boring. So now I am worried.

        mstdn.social says it has a 500 character limit. Without googleing a new user would have no idea what the regular character limits are. And I have no idea whether that will cause issues when interacting with other instances.

        This page is like getting to a used car dealership without a clue about cars and you ask the car dealer to help you choose a car, and the dealer is like “Yeah, so I’m gonna help you. The right car for you is any car on the property of the dealership.”

  • Knightfall@lemmy.ca
    2·
    1 year ago

    There are 1 billion active users on Instagram and those users were invited to Threads using an existing account. Celebrities, businesses, streamers, etc. all popped up on Threads within the first few hours of public release.

    I’m a big nerd and just learned about the fediverse within recent months. Everyone else I know who uses Twitter and Threads have no clue what Mastodon is.

    • CoderKat@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s unfathomable how huge Instagram is. That’s a massive number of people who could be easily informed “hey, wanna try our new product?” As an aside, when I googled it, it said there was 2 billion active Instagram users.

      I find it silly when people act skeptical of Threads’ numbers, since Meta only needed a tiny number of their existing user base to try it out.

      • Lockszmith@lemmy.ninja
        1·
        1 year ago

        There was a time - when facebook/ig didn’t exist, the difference was - back then nothing exists, and so the intriguing new thing (that didn’t make money yet), was buggy as hell, and so the spread was FAST.

        Thankfully, those big projects, whenever they make a mistake, the fediverse gets a boost.

        I’ve been following the fediverse since disapora announced their plans circa 2010. I created an account on one of the instances in 2012 and probably visited it twice since.

        It’s one thing to be early adopters when something is completely new compared to something that comes to replace something that everybody is already using.

        We’ll get there. With every mistake these big corps will do, we’ll get more and more people in, until THIS will become the ‘cool’ thing around.

        Until then, it will be much much better.

  • Schlemmy@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    I suppose the onboarding has a lot to do with it. Creating a mastodon-compatible account is a hassle. You have to ke choices. The experience isn’t seamless.