Post APKXtAcFSdev9HHkdk by Moon@shitposter.club
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 (DIR) Post #APKXt8sTvJSJl2rgfI by VamptVo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-06T14:20:39Z
       
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       I think a lot of the FUD around Mastodon comes from people who have already decided to stay on Twitter and are convincing themselves that it's the right decision. But there's also a lot of truth to the onboarding being confusing.
       
 (DIR) Post #APKXt9ZjKW3BvB6E4m by VamptVo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-06T14:20:44Z
       
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       "It's just like email" is true in a sense, but not for Mastodon itself. Email is the equivalent of the federated network that Mastodon is a part of. But Mastodon isn't like Gmail, it's like an open-source, self-hosted Gmail clone (hence the confusion for non-techies)
       
 (DIR) Post #APKXtA3rWU9ZQdCI2i by VamptVo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-06T14:26:38Z
       
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       I don't know that Mastodon will gain critical mass as-is, but my hope is that a sort of "Gmail for the fediverse" comes along to help users for whom the different servers are too confusing. A single service with unified branding/onboarding that federates with Mastodon.
       
 (DIR) Post #APKXtAcFSdev9HHkdk by Moon@shitposter.club
       2022-11-06T14:59:05.265176Z
       
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       @VamptVo contrary to the entire point of the network
       
 (DIR) Post #APKXtLv5QwGQCtBS1w by VamptVo@mastodon.social
       2022-11-06T14:26:43Z
       
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       Mastodon itself isn't the real value of the federated network. The ideal that it's striving toward is a world in which all sorts of different services can talk to each other (not just different servers running the same Mastodon software).