Honestly… Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I’ve talked to people who dispise twitter but won’t even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.
The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you’ve only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It’s the same with servers/instances and social media
Conflating ease of operation with ease of sign up. Have you ever tried to read an article online and something pops up and you left the page, even if it wasn’t necessarily trying to get you to log in? That’s the sort of thing they’re talking about.
I’ll admit, I just stopped trying after it happened a few times. It doesn’t offer anything worth the headache of selecting an instance.
Also when I was trying mastodon.social wasn’t available, I think? Don’t remember any more.
Does anyone actually say this though? I don’t think anyone who joined Bluesky did so for federation - they joined because it’s not Twitter.
You forgot, it’s also not mastodon.
I joined because it lets me use my domain as my username without having to host an instance.
Yeah that’s a really cool feature.
Honestly… Ya, literally any extra steps in signing up or slight bit of confusion is enough to make the average person give up and go back to whatever platform they are comfortable with. I’ve talked to people who dispise twitter but won’t even switch to Bluesky because the extra dot in the user handle is too weird for them.
Yeah honestly they should make cars with one pedal. Two is just way to confusing for the average person.
One-pedal driving is a feature in a number of modern cars.
Wait until I tell you about the cars with three pedals.
Hi I found a 4th pedal on the far left that doesn’t come back up when I press it, and my car makes funny smells now
My bicycle only has two pedals, but the seat smells funny too.
It’s probably a controversial opinion, but you could solve that problem by not sniffing bicycle seats.
Who said it was a problem?
The difference is more like automatic vs manual transmission. If you’ve only ever used automatic, the mere idea of gears to push is enough to scare most people out of learning. It’s the same with servers/instances and social media
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Conflating ease of operation with ease of sign up. Have you ever tried to read an article online and something pops up and you left the page, even if it wasn’t necessarily trying to get you to log in? That’s the sort of thing they’re talking about.
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Dementia.
Nah it said it timed out so I hit send again and jerboa sent it twice.
Yeah, thats a very common occurance on reddit because the platform is still held together by duct tape and prayers.
We’re not on reddit…
I know, thats why I mentioned it. Only time I saw it happen here.
Oh okay okay I get you now
Perfection
Mastodon instances keep deactivating my accounts when I don’t post anything for two weeks, so yeah. Bsky it is.
I don’t think that’s standard. I’m on mastodon.social where I haven’t posted in forever and it’s still there
I’ll admit, I just stopped trying after it happened a few times. It doesn’t offer anything worth the headache of selecting an instance. Also when I was trying mastodon.social wasn’t available, I think? Don’t remember any more.
The headache of selecting an instance is why i chose mastodon.social and lemmy.ml. I just join the one made by the developers of the thing