No, it does. Sign up is extremely straightforward now. All things involving federation are essentially optional on the official app.
JustinHanagan
joined 2 years ago
Yes my thoughts exactly. When email was too confusing ISPs included it pre-configured as a perk initially and Gmail came later.
My feelings in regards to social media are stop the bleeding first, remove society's dependence on X, Meta, and other for-profit platforms. Then we can worry about educating "normal" people on Federation, ActivityPub, etc.
FYI you haven't needed to choose an instance in the official app for a while now. It just defaults to mastodon.social unless you request otherwise.
Not ideal long-term to have it be centralized like this, but it's still leaps and bounds preferrable to Twitter or Threads.
If it's still too complicated for someone after reading this I think it's safe to say they're a lost cause
In this "idiot-proof" guide I recommend the app because it smooths over anything to do with Federation which is where people get confused. Choosing an instance and following people in the app is as easy as any other app.
You didn't read it did youπ
Yep. "Slowly, then all at once".
Personally, I think once the journalists and news orgs (finally) get on board, that will inspire government agencies to make the change, and that will be the true tipping point away from π.
You can just click "no thanks" to the subscription box, but I've copy-pasted the full guide (short version) here for you:
Download the Mastodon app from the Apple app store or Play store.
Create an account (just like Twitter or any other social media)
Follow people, and get posting.
It's a bit of a joke post because a lot of the coverage around Mastodon gets really into the weeds with Federation, ActivityPub, etc. and journalists often describe it as "too techie" for "normal" users.
Well, "normal" users don't care about the technical backend of Twitter or Facebook so it always felt a bit disingenuous to me it was presented this way. Hopefully my post can dispell some of the confusion!
I did that, thanks. And the βcrossposted toβ¦β showed up. Pretty cool!
Thank you! I put a lot of effort into it.
To cross-post on Lemmy/kbin you just... make the new post right?
I know, it's just too technical π