Is it just the momentum and word of mouth, or are there improved features as well?

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    1 year ago

    It’s ridiculous how much Mastodon advocates downplay this.

    I strongly prefer Mastodon over the alternatives, but the onboarding experience is BAD for the average user.

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      1 year ago

      Onboarding to Mastodon is actually identical to BS/Threads now. They’ve made huge improvements. It’s a shame that most of the news media’s experience discovering Mastodon for the first time was in Oct '22 because it’s left a bit of a “techie” aura around the whole thing they’re still trying to shake off. If Mastodon was then where it is now, I don’t even think BS or Threads would try to compete.