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@RolloTreadway @maegul @lucywildboots @Ronkjeffries @fediversenews This is difficult to counter. If you try saying “Mastodon isn’t confusing”, then immediately that suggests that someone, somewhere said it was. So maybe it is.
It’s an excellent way for anyone with a pro-Twitter (or anti-Fediverse) agenda to spread FUD.
I don’t know how to counter this, but suspect some other language or form of words is needed.
@MetalSamurai @RolloTreadway @lucywildboots @Ronkjeffries @fediversenews Fair I suppose.
But getting down to basics, you’re given a choice (which instance). There are many ways to not understand that choice, even beyond the basic idea of why the choice exists in the first place (ie decentralisation).
What are all/any of the consequences of picking one over the other?
@MetalSamurai @RolloTreadway @lucywildboots @Ronkjeffries @fediversenews
Why do some say it doesn’t matter and yet they all advertise themselves as unique in some way?
Moderation and blocking seem to be a major difference between instances, but how do I find information about that?
Compounded by a lack of knowledge about the “culture” of the fediverse, a newcomer is forced to make a choice they don’t understand.
@MetalSamurai @RolloTreadway @lucywildboots @Ronkjeffries @fediversenews Which then compounds itself. Not understanding a choice leads to not understanding why the choice is being provided. Then one wonders what inside cultural understanding they’re missing etc.
So maybe confusion = “unclear and unmotivated choice”.
And presenting this upfront before anything else is definitely off putting.
@MetalSamurai @RolloTreadway @lucywildboots @Ronkjeffries @fediversenews In my case, I understood federation and all that perfectly well, but found the information available on instances and their admins paltry and so got stuck on picking an instance … because I didn’t know what a particular choice would actually entail.