The Fediverse's biggest mistake so far was not laying out the carpet for the Twitter et al Migrants. They were forced to recognise that the fediverse was always
"correct"/good and to simply "join" a foreign place and obey its customs.

Instead, they should have been given their own "place" (a soft Mastodon fork and separate instances) to grow, call and have a culture of their own.

If new platforms eat the fediverse's lunch (eg BlueSky), it will be by providing this experience.

[–] maegul@hachyderm.io 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

@fediverse
7) In the aggregate, #Mastodon / #fediverse are simply unintuitive.

Add up all of the design missteps or confusions (which happen), mixed and confusing but often strongly felt cultural standards, lacking or hard-to-find documentation or explanations, and, federation strangeness/quirkiness ... and you get a platform that crosses past the reasonably intuitive line.

It's reparable, but probably not easily so.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Have you ever used Facebook? That is unintuitive. Twitter as well, most of the big platforms are.