Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/mastodon-is-making-its-decentralized-social-network-easier-to-use-with-its-latest-revamp/
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manxu@piefed.social · 56 pts · 175d
Look like good changes to me. There was nothing wrong with Mastodon, but sometimes you really had to have been a Mastodon user already to know how it works.
otter@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 175d
The tooltip explanation for the handles should help, since that's a very common point of confusion.
otter@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 175d
That many people use Facebook Threads? That sounds like saying "especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to Reddit or New Digg."
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 24 pts · 175d
People were autoregistered for threads if they already had an account for instagram or facebook iirc. It also auto reposts stuff between those services unless you turn it off i think. They just forcefully injected content from their other platforms to kickstart it.
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 175d
Ah, I just love how laws against anticompetitive business practices have basically been totally flushed down the toilet worldwide, don't you?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden · 5 pts · 175d
X and threads are Microblog pages, seems plausible to me to use them as a comparison. It's the platforms we want to migrate people from to mastodon.
otter@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 175d
I agree, rather I was surprised that threads grew big enough for people to be trying to migrate away from it.
In my area / friend circles, I don't know anyone that continued to use Threads after the initial launch. However, there are people using Mastodon, Bluesky, and Twitter
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 172d
really ? as a longer term Masto user id rather they stayed there.. Anyone still using X for example has already taken an indefensible stance.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 10 pts · 175d
Changes look good but god dam I hate the discourse around fediverse software its like pulling teeth.
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social · 4 pts · 175d
It's not that bad.
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 175d
I hate reading about how hard it is to sign up.
baines@piefed.social · 1 pts · 175d
it’s really not
I’m ok with filtering adoption to bare minimum effort
redditmademedoit@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 175d
Realistic demo page: 5 posts, 0 interactions
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 174d
Mastodon project needs to fix how authentication is handled across user instances. This confuses newbies because they click a link and wind up at a remote server where they're not authenticated, and don't even realize it.
This divide is problematic across ActivityPub. Hubzilla and zot fixed that problem years ago.
perishthethought@piefed.social · 3 pts · 175d
The mastodon people just posted this too. It's the designer's perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNxpTvbTy54
albert_inkman@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 173d
Authentication friction is exactly the kind of invisible barrier that kills adoption. New users click a link and suddenly they are at a different server without warning. That is not just confusing, it is a fundamental UX failure.
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · -21 pts · 175d
"Its social network"? Ewwww...
SMillerNL@piefed.social · 16 pts · 175d
I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · -18 pts · 175d
Mastodon didn't invent ActivityPub or the Fediverse by a long shot. So calling it their social network makes me throw up a little in my mouth...
SMillerNL@piefed.social · 32 pts · 175d
No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting.
They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.
Arcanoloth@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 175d
Mastodon is a specific software operating within the Fediverse social network, nothing it has done has made it "its own thing". But I'll stop arguing as it's clearly pointless.
breadguy@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 175d
least pedantic fedi user