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They’re getting so shit people will have no choice. They’re already leaving one alienated group at a time

A small friend group is best suited for chat programs (discord et al.) But if you want to expand the group a mastodon server is a good idea

Pretty much. I should be able tobmake friends with any human on earth with an internet connection. That this is still hard is something we need to fix

We do need better onboarding. I wonder if you could make an equivalent of the “discovery” feed that wasn’t abusive to the user

Their moderation has been garbage lately. They’re wrongly banning people for things they didn’t do. It’s just premusk twitter at this point. The real fediverse is a better vet medium and long term

It seems like we have a problem where there’s too much money at the top of society that’s trying to chase returns that can’t exist because there’s enough money at the bottom to buy products, so it just gets invested in bad ways. This will probably continue until they waste enough for their own money on bullshit that they no longer have it

The big problem here is that it’s simply not reliable enough to replace a worker because you have to have the AI running unsupervised to actually replace anyone and it can’t be done with the current technology and something that can actually replace workers is not coming in the next 5 years or so and I’m being generous.

thank you. I used kbin.social before it went down and only got around to getting back on the bandwagon.

non technical people don’t understand how computers work. for us it’s intuitive that a computer can have a program on it that listens to a port on the network and serves interactive web pages for for most people “app on phone does something” is all they know. their mwental model is shaped by large corpo offerings.

I think our pitch to the tech illiterate should be “hey look at this great website, great content, mods actually do their jobs, users are friendly” let them sign up thinking a particular instance is just like what their used to, then they discover on their own accord that some users have an extra @example.com at the end, and if they ask explain that there are other websites just like that one, and the websites can exchange messages so it all works like one big website. for apps, just tell them “when you launch it for the first time it asks for your server, just type in the domain name, this app supports multiple websites. good, now put in your username and password and you’re all set”

starting new people off in the browser might be a bit awkward on mobile but saving the federation talk for later is probably best. focus on the surface level appeal (a website that is good and doesn’t suck) and they can learn why it doesn’t suck later

we’re all burnt out from life bending us over. I intended to sign up here for a couple months and onlu just got around to it.