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I would love to see more of my friends start using Mastodon. A number have gotten accounts, but they don't stay. They say there are two reasons:
1. It's a steep learning curve.
2. They feel they must pass multiple purity tests to be accepted.
Not much can be done for those upset by the first one. But the second one, yeah, I see their point.
@joyce one of the main barriers for my friends seems to be having to post to get anything back - I've realised that a lot of people like the experience of Meta and TikTok but not the ethics of it, whereas I dislike both so the Fediverse works well for me. If you wNt to use social media to talk to people the Fediverse works well, but there are a lot of people who just want to scroll social media passively without posting, and the Fediverse doesn't work so well for that because you have to post to find people to follow.
@joyce and to be clear that's a perfectly valid way to do social media. But trying to get more people on here has definitely shown me there is a type of person who sees social media as a way to talk to people, and a type who sees it like a book or a show to sit back and consume, and the Fediverse doesn't really work for the second type. Whereas ethical issues aside I don't really like Facebook or Instagram because they don't really work for the former anymore
@joyce For 1. I warmly recommend the wonderful @FediTips and their easy to understand guide: https://fedi.tips/
For 2: I also nearly deleted my account here several times because I'm so fed up of that typical #Mastodon purity police' and mansplainers.
But meanwhile, I feel angry enough to publicly shame and report/block them if they harass others. The more of us showing them a finger 🖕 the more they could learn that they are not liked.
The good news: our moderators are humans.
@joyce honestly in my experience, other fediverse models like Misskey are much better introductions for non-fedi people because they behave a bit like a private clubhouse first and allow people to expand their accounts further into the fediverse at their pace.
on that format, your local feed is pretty much the most important one, and everything else is ancillary to your own account & experience.
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