• monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, I am just saying some of the things I have heard. People don’t want the cognitive overhead of having to make decisions before trying a thing. They just wanna sign up and look around get a feel for something before deciding to dive in.

    Mastodon in particular has a steep onboarding process. In order to get it useful you have too

    • Sign up for an instance (which they have to find)
    • search for people to follow when people are thinking in topics.

    There isn’t an easy way to stumble into new things. I found it tedious and others I have spoken with have said the same. I suppose Mastodon isn’t for me (hence why I am here).

    • desertdruid@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 hours ago

      I think there is a misunderstanding on what a starter pack means here because it literally tries to help with this point:

      search for people to follow when people are thinking in topics.

      There is no way to pick a wrong starter pack because you can pick whatever you want, one pack, two packs, cero packs.

      It’s just a list of accounts that you can follow in bulk

      edit: well looks like you won’t be able to have a ‘follow all’ button on mastodon but its the same idea