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.
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especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to X or Threads.
That many people use Facebook Threads? That sounds like saying "especially for more mainstream users looking for an alternative to Reddit or New Digg."
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Changes look good but god dam I hate the discourse around fediverse software its like pulling teeth.
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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.
Realistic demo page: 5 posts, 0 interactions
The mastodon people just posted this too. It's the designer's perspective.
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.
"Its social network"? Ewwww...
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