The signup process for mastodon sucks massively. Unless you're nerdy enough to sort it out, you'll give up then and there. Bluesky is very straightforward, while offering customization to those looking for a non-mainstream experience.

Same for Lemmy tbh.

[–] Wilmo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I don't really remember signing up for mastodon so I tested it.

mastodon.social -> create new account -> agree to terms -> username + email + password -> click email verification

It's literally standard. Maybe in the past it was worse I vaguely remember giving up maybe a year or two before I made an account on mastodon.social.

[–] aoidenpa@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert but I heard languages, religions and cultures has some irrational and hard to imitate rules so that outsiders can't join in or blend easily. Is this similar? Maybe it's an advantage?

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Whether it's and advantage or not depends on your perspective. If you want the fediverse to supplant Big Tech, then no, having a culture which is not welcoming of outsiders is not an advantantage.

However, if you happen to be a part of Lemmy's "in-group", you probably don't want a bunch of "normies" flooding in and cluttering up your feed with what you consider to be low effort shitposts, or starting drama in the comments. In that sense, maintaining a barrier to entry is an advantage because, in this mindset, if they can't be bothered to wrap their head around a slightly more complex signup than usual, than they weren't going to be good members of this community.

Perhaps some will disagree with my interpretation of the two popes (I meant poles, but I'm keeping the typo) of users here. To be clear, I'm not ascribing a value judgment to either position. I think both have valid points, and, frankly, I'm not sure where I come down on it.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just went to mastadon.social for mastadon and like the biggest national lemmy instance we have, feddit. Although I have to criticize the old instance of feddit shutting down unexpectedly and I had to migrate to a newer one.

[–] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What is a Mastadon?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's an extinct species of mammoth. God knows why it's named after an extinct elephant.